A Bit of Life's Worry

As we all know life has its ups & downs. Sometime ago, in the 90s, I had just arrived at a plant in Port Arthur, TX with another friend of mine. He & I just came back to TEXAS and we were going to drop the trailers at the plant & head for some much needed home time. like I said life's ups &down, well on the way home I had a call from my younger brother. I heard him say 'where are you?' I said I'm about to go to the house for a few days, why do you ask? there was a pause then he said 'are you sitting down?' .WHY? I SAID. 'Well baby brother was going to work this morning and caught someone trying to steal his stereo out of his pickup'. Baby brother didn't know what was going on -until the man shot him. Being a very strong young man he didn't go down- the man shot him four more times. He was lifeflighted to Herman hospital in HOUSTON,TX. When I arrived my baby brother was awake and talking to other family members. None of the bullets had hit any major organs. One of the bullets was lodged in his skull and another was lodged in his shoulder, the other three were removed without any major damage. After hugging him & makeing sure he was going to be ok I was relieved and was able to return home knowing he was going to be fine. He still has those two bullets in his body, a reminder of one horrible morning when simply walking out of the house to go to work became a nightmare.