I know the president told us about Gabby, (can I call her Gabby?), opening her eyes yesterday but here's the story from her friends from the hill.
Gillibrand:
And one of her eyes is covered with a bandage because it was damaged in the gunfire. So her eye is flickering. And Mark sees this and gets extremely excited. And we didn’t -- I didn’t know what that meant. And so he said, Gabby, open your eyes, open your eyes. And he’s really urging her forward.
I love Gillibrand, she was so excited Wasserman-Schultz hardly gets a word in! LOL
And then she finally opens her eyes and you could she was like desperately trying to focus and it took enormous strength from her. And Mark could just -- can’t believe it. I mean, he’s so happy. And we’re crying because we’re witnessing something that we never imagined would happen in front of us.
And so Mark says, he says -- he said, Gabby, if you can see me, give us the thumbs up, give us the thumbs up. And so we’re waiting and we’re waiting and --
REPRESENTATIVE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: And she didn’t at first.
I started to cry at this point so it took me a while to read the rest of the article. Just one more quote then I'll send you off to read the rest yourself:
SENATOR GILLIBRAND: And we just thought, okay -- and you could watch -- when you’re watching her eyes, she’s really trying to focus. Like you could see she hadn’t opened her eyes in days. And then instead of giving the thumbs up, she literally raises her whole arm like this -- like this. It was unbelievable. And then she reaches out and starts grabbing Mark and is touching him and starts to nearly choke him -- she was clearly trying to hug him.
Off you go, it's a great read. Take a hanky.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/...