"My husband was amazing and made it very clear he wouldn't be offended if I didn't want to take his last name," Glasscock tells TODAY.com. "But I thought about it for a while, and it was really important to me that we have the same last name for our future kids."
"At first it's the fear. Am I going to live? Then it's the emotional reaction of 'OK I made it,' said Pellegrino. "When the nurses tell you that you lose, I lost, a liter-and-a-half of blood. It's a miracle that I'm here now."
With every beat of his heart, 29-year-old Nicholas Pellegrino felt like he was another pump closer to death. The religion and Spanish teacher at San Francisco's Archbishop Riordan High School was at the San Donato Milanese train station in Milan, Italy, and he was bleeding out.