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Pat Mitchell: That day, January 8, 2011, began like all others. You were both doing the work that you love. You were meeting with constituents, which is something that you loved doing as a congresswoman, and Mark, you were happily preparing for your next space shuttle. And suddenly, everything that you had planned or expected in your lives was irrevocably changed forever.
0:41
Mark Kelly: Yeah, it's amazing, it's amazing how everything can change for any of us in an instant.People don't realize that. I certainly didn't. Gabby Giffords: Yes. MK: And on that Saturday morning, I got this horrible phone call from Gabby's chief of staff. She didn't have much other information. She just said, "Gabby was shot." A few minutes later, I called her back and I actually thought for a second, well, maybe I just imagined getting this phone call. I called her back, and that's when she told me that Gabby had been shot in the head. And from that point on, I knew that our lives were going to be a lot different.
1:16
PM: And when you arrived at the hospital, what was the prognosis that they gave you about Gabby's condition and what recovery, if any, you could expect?
1:26
MK: Well, for a gunshot wound to the head and a traumatic brain injury, they typically can't tell you much. Every injury is different. It's not predictable like often a stroke might be predictable, which is another TBI kind of injury. So they didn't know how long Gabby would be in a coma, didn't know when that would change and what the prognosis would be.
1:48
PM: Gabby, has your recovery been an effort to create a new Gabby Giffords or reclaim the old Gabby Giffords?
2:00
GG: The new one -- better, stronger, tougher. (Applause)
2:09
MK: That to say, when you look at the picture behind us, to come back from that kind of injury and come back strong and stronger than ever is a really tough thing to do. I don't know anybody that's as tough as my wonderful wife right here. (Applause)
2:28
PM: And what were the first signs that recovery was not only going to be possible but you were going to have some semblance of the life that you and Gabby had planned?
2:39
MK: Well, the first thing, for me, was Gabby was still kind of almost unconscious, but she did something when she was in the ICU hospital bed that she used to do when we might be out to dinner at a restaurant, in that she pulled my ring off and she flipped it from one finger to the next, and at that point I knew that she was still in there. PM: And there were certain words, too. Didn't she surprise you with words in the beginning?
3:08
MK: Well, it was tough in the beginning. GG: What? What? Chicken. Chicken. Chicken.
3:14
MK: Yeah, that was it. For the first month, that was the extent of Gabby's vocabulary. For some reason, she has aphasia, which is difficulty with communication. She latched on to the word "chicken," which isn't the best but certainly is not the worst. (Laughter) And we were actually worried it could have been a lot worse than that. PM: Gabby, what's been the toughest challenge for you during this recovery?
3:42
GG: Talking. Really hard. Really.
3:47
MK: Yeah, with aphasia, Gabby knows what she wants to say, she just can't get it out. She understands everything, but the communication is just very difficult because when you look at the picture, the part of your brain where those communication centers are are on the left side of your head, which is where the bullet passed through.
4:06
PM: So you have to do a very dangerous thing: speak for your wife.
4:10
MK: I do. It might be some of the most dangerous things I've ever done.
4:16
PM: Gabby, are you optimistic about your continuing recovery -- walking, talking, being able to move your arm and leg?
4:25
GG: I'm optimistic. It will be a long, hard haul, but I'm optimistic.
4:33
PM: That seems to be the number one characteristic of Gabby Giffords, wouldn't you say? (Applause)
4:37
MK: Gabby's always been really optimistic. She works incredibly hard every day.
4:41
GG: On the treadmill, walked on my treadmill, Spanish lessons, French horn.
4:48
MK: It's only my wife who could be -- and if you knew her before she was injured, you would kind of understand this -- somebody who could be injured and have such a hard time communicating and meets with a speech therapist, and then about a month ago, she says, "I want to learn Spanish again."
5:06
PM: Well, let's take a little closer look at the wife, and this was even before you met Gabby Giffords.And she's on a motor scooter there, but it's my understanding that's a very tame image of what Gabby Giffords was like growing up.
5:21
MK: Yeah, Gabby, she used to race motorcycles. So that's a scooter, but she had -- well, she still has a BMW motorcycle.
5:29
PM: Does she ride it? MK: Well, that's a challenge with not being able to move her right arm, but I think with something I know about, Velcro, we might be able to get her back on the bike, Velcro her right hand up onto the handlebar.
5:46
PM: I have a feeling we might see that picture next, Gabby. But you meet, you're already decided that you're going to dedicate your life to service. You're going into the military and eventually to become an astronaut. So you meet. What attracts you to Gabby?
6:05
MK: Well, when we met, oddly enough, it was the last time we were in Vancouver, about 10 years ago. We met in Vancouver, at the airport, on a trip that we were both taking to China, that I would actually, from my background, I would call it a boondoggle. Gabby would — GG: Fact-finding mission.
6:26
MK: She would call it an important fact-finding mission. She was a state senator at the time, and we met here, at the airport, before a trip to China.
6:37
PM: Would you describe it as a whirlwind romance?
6:39
GG: No, no, no. (Laughter) A good friend.
6:46
MK: Yeah, we were friends for a long time.
6:48
GG: Yes. (Laughter)
6:53
MK: And then she invited me on, about a year or so later, she invited me on a date. Where'd we go, Gabby?
