Steve Scalise says shooting recovery was like 'rebuilding Humpty Dumpty'

Doctors had to basically piece together Rep. Steve Scalise after a crazed gunman shot him during a baseball practice, the Louisiana Republican recalled in his first interview since the attack.

“They did a phenomenal job of ... rebuilding Humpty Dumpty,” Scalise, the House Majority Whip, told “60 Minutes” in an interview that airs Sunday. “There was a lot of damage inside that had to get fixed.”

Scalise took a 9mm bullet to the hip while fielding ground balls on June 14 at a field in Alexandria, Va. — preparing for the Congressional Baseball Game a day later.

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The gunman, James Hodgkinson, wounded five people including Scalise before he was fatally shot.

Scalise, 51, was seen on a gurney as chaos ensued on the Washington, D.C. suburb.

He was in and out of the intensive care unit — first from gunshot wound and then from an infection that spiked a fever.

The five-term representative, flanked by his wife Jennifer, recalled he wasn’t aware at first how severe his injuries were.

“I found out later just how much damage was done internally,” Scalise, wearing jeans and a blue pullover sweater, told “60 Minutes.” “My femur was shattered.”

The bullet, he added, “did some damage to areas that had to be shored up with steel plates.”

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