My embroidery machine is broke

Well, my embroidery machine is broke.  I’m not sure where to get it fixed or even if it is worth trying to fix it.  I have an old Brother embroidery machine and it was acting up some.  I thought it was the foot pedal that was causing it to give me problems, but it wasn’t.

It would work and then all of a sudden stop, like it was stuck in between cycles or something.  Then it would slowly start up again. 

It all began a couple of weeks ago when we had some storms come through from that hurricane that hit Texas.  We lost power after getting hit by lightning and I thought all was well.  After the power came back up, it hasn’t acted right since then.

I wonder if the lightning strike caused that problem?  Would it ruin my embroidery machine like that?  I guess it’s good that I still have my machine embroidery designs still on my computer so I guess I need a new embroidery machine.