My life is forever changed.
I was a hard-charging, successful CEO of a complex organization that included four nonprofit entities and one for-profit company. I had a 30-year relationship with my partner.
Today I could not work as a Walmart greeter due to acute PTSD. I am alone.
The difference between then and now is having been ambushed and shot point-blank in my back, at the direction of an employee, to put the brakes on an internal audit. She succeeded.
In the competition between a .45 caliber bullet and human tissue, the bullet always wins. Proof that two objects cannot exist in the same place at the same time.
Once a bullet enters a human body, it tends to rattle around until it runs out of inertia. In my case, my right hip was destroyed, requiring a total hip replacement.
I walk just fine. It’s my mental health that continues to get worse in spite of fairly continuous treatment and my consumption of medications.
My one suicide attempt resulted in a four-week stay in a psych ward. Before my partner died, I worked very hard at destroying our relationship.
No one has ever been brought to justice. Presumably my shooter was a prohibited carrier.