Gayle Thorsen remembers vividly that terrifying New Year's Eve more than a dozen years ago. Just as midnight struck, a stray celebratory bullet felled Thorsen, landing her in the hospital, the slug still lodged in her abdomen, near the spine. Initially, her hopes rode on the prospect of surgery to remove the bullet and end the pain. Instead, she was told it was less damaging to leave the bullet where it was, rather than attempt to surgically remove it. The physical agony that went on for … [Read more...] about Magazine article: Police Chaplain Armed with Effective Help (2006)