Doctors for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) said Monday she is nearing the rehabilitation phase of her recovery.
Giffords, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head in the Jan. 8 mass shootings in Arizona, has been making what her doctors consider very rapid progress.
University Medical Center Chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole said Giffords underwent a procedure on Saturday to repair "orbital roof fractures" in her eyes and eye sockets. A separate procedure was also performed to remove Giffords's breathing tube. Doctors gave her a feeding tube for nutrition.
The pace of Giffords's steady progress has continued, Lemole said, and potentially dangerous brain swelling has not increased.
"Every sign on the CAT scans and just on her physical examinations suggest that we're going in the right direction at this point," Lemole said.
"I'm happy to say that within a few hours of the surgery she was waking up, and through the weekend she came back to the same baseline she had been before the surgery, that same level of interaction she had had with us," Lemole said. "And that's all very good."
In a previous press briefing, Lemole said Giffords's progress in her recovery and survival was nothing short of miraculous. He said Monday her progress continues to best be described that way.
"That word still holds well," Lemole said.
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5 comments:
Does she qualify for medical procedures under Obamas HealthCare? and what panel of democrates will be judging her condition?
i think the whole thing was a big lie. she may have been wounded, but no way received the damage their putting out. their milking it for more gun control laws. remember that statement never let an event pass without taking advantage of it. its all about arizona being put back in line. even judge killed was even a bush appoitment. don't put nothing past this bunch in dc.
10:31, you are one sick pathetic wretch.
The woman was shot at point-blank range. She is incredibly lucky to be alived but will be disabled. There are others who have been shot in the head and survived(very few, like James Brady), but with all sorts of complications and a much shorter life span.
I'm sure she and her family will be very sorry to have disappointed you by not having her die.
You sicko. You do not represent the America I love!
Hey 10:31 and 9:55, let me guess, right wing bible thumper. Your comments are very Christian.
Can't believe how in this age of information, people can be so backwards.
Judging from his use of English, 10:31 is barely literate, so I shouldn't put too much stock into what he's written? On the other hand, maybe it's satire, not that he has probably ever heard of satire.
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