and every time the little monitors would beep, he was jummy.py, just terrible shape. >> was he in tears? >> yeah. >> tell me what happened the first time you saw nancy in the icu. >> it was a difficult time. she was real drugged up, but all the family and, and a lot of people from the church and stuff were there. >> doctors told the family the bullet had entered nancy's skull just above her left eye and traveled downward through her sinuses and throat before it collapsed one of her lungs. she had the first of many surgeries. she would lose one of her blue eyes, but luckily she escaped serious brain damage. >> there's tubes and lines. you could say she's all right. it doesn't look like she's all right, you know. there's swelling, there's inflammation all over. things attached to her feet. so it's kind of hard to feel like, okay, this is okay and this is right. >> it was very traumatic to see, to see that happen to her, very difficult, very, uh, very emotional time. >> was she able to talk to you the first time you saw her? >> i don't believe so.