Positive Attitude
Sabby was the kind of guy who was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. One day I heard that sabby left the back door of his restaurant open and he was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Sabby was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma centre.After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Sabby was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Sabby about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Do you want to see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have looked the back door," Sabby replied. "Then as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action". "What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Sabby. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,'I replied. The doctor and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply... I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Sabby lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
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