If you missed Diane Sawyer’s special last night, the whole thing’s now online at ABC. I’m giving you five minutes below plus an audio file of Giffords reading a message to her constituents so that you can see how far she’s come. She’s got a long way to go with her speech, obviously — her responses are just a few words long, and sometimes only one word — but she does seem able to follow the questions. Whether that means her speech will eventually catch up to her comprehension so that she can converse more normally or whether there’ll always be that imbalance due to localized brain damage, I don’t know, but it’s amazing to think of her sitting comfortably for a national TV interview just 10 months after the sort of injury she suffered.

Mark Kelly is a good man.

A Message from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by RepGiffords