WebMD the Magazine's 2006 Health Heroes
WebMD the Magazine's 2006 Health Heroes Meet four everyday Americans who faced their own health challenges and now give back to others. By Lauren Paige Kennedy Finding a New Life After Gunshot Wound and Paralysis "I am one of five boys. All of my brothers had been shot, one of them six times. I was the only one who hadn't been. Guess I was waiting my turn," says Eric Gibson, a former South Central L.A. gang member who was recruited for thuggery and drug dealing at 13. In 1993, at age 25, his turn arrived in the form of a drive-by shooting that sprayed five bullets from a .357 Magnum ...