After the incident, the D.C. schoolteacher struggled for years to keep her family together as her husband slowly recovered. She chronicles their wrenching journey in a new book.
Abby and TC Maslin had to rebuild their marriage after a 2012 attack left TC with severe brain damage. “There’s this place between life and death that is in some ways a bigger battle than death,” says Abby. “And that’s where we were.
The next time Abby saw her husband, he was in a hospital bed, in a coma, with a chunk of his skull missing. TC Maslin suffered severe brain damage in the attack. He had to relearn how to speak and walk. Horrible things happen every day in Washington. Murders, muggings, sexual assaults. And yet TC Maslin’s case managed to capture the attention of the city.
His competence, she admits, allowed her to become “quite lazy,” secure in the knowledge that TC would take care of everything for both of them. Again and again, the person she most wanted to turn to for advice was TC. But he couldn’t tell her what to do. In those early months, he couldn’t even tell her who he was.
“It’s like you have your house and you know where all the items are there,” he says. “And then you have an earthquake and everything’s sort of scattered. So all the memories are there, I know. But it’s very hard for me to, first of all, find them. And then it’s hard to verbalize them.” He is by no means fully recovered, and probably never will be. The challenges of day-to-day living have redirected his ambition. He says he’s less “career focused,” less occupied with “long-term planning.” He’s regained some of his athleticism: He ran a half marathon last fall, and he’s thinking of attempting a full marathon this year. At the same time, he has very little feeling on the right side of his body and does almost everything with his left hand.
She almost gave up on the book. “I don’t know if I can give you a happy ending,” Abby remembers telling her book agent. But on the other side of despair, she found words that reflected something heavier, and sturdier, than adoration.
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