Giffords speaks as rehabilitation is working

Rehab and recovery are going swimmingly well, as Gabrielle Giffords talks again. Giffords is capable of some simple speech, which is proof that the extreme physical therapy she is undergoing is working. The wounds she received are normally deadly.

Improvement by AZ Congresswoman

The hospital in Tucson, AZ, where AZ Congresswoman Giffords was staying, has moved her to a physical therapy facility located in Houston, Texas. She will recover from her brain injury there. After Jared Lee Loughner shot Giffords in the Tucson shooting, she has been recovering from the brain injury. On January 8, she was rushed to a Tuscan hospital after being shot in the head, and nearly a month later, she has begun speaking again, according to CBS. The TIRR Memorial Herman hospital is where she is doing physical rehabilitation. It has been extreme for her. Giffords was moved there because the hospital specializes in physical rehabilitation for victims of severe head and brain trauma.

Giffords has an appetite and can speak again

A spokesman explained the talk therapy that Giffords is going through it going well. Since Giffords had a breathing tube recently, it is unknown how she is talking since either she would have to have a vent placed in the tube or it would have to be removed completely. Her urge for food has also returned. This can be a milestone. Her Facebook page recently had a comment from her husband, Mark Kelly. He said, “Gabby’s urge for food is back — even though it’s hospital food.” Kelly's Space Shuttle Endeavour is on hold. He will return in April at the soonest.

Courthouse to be named for victim

After the Tucson shooting that killed six and wounded 13, Congress has passed a bill to name a federal courthouse after one of the victims, Reuters reports. Chief Judge John M. Roll was killed in the shooting. A new courthouse can be titled after him after being built in Yuma, Arizona. The building should open in 2013.

Information from

CBS News

cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/09/national/main20031226.shtml

Reuters

reuters.com/article/2011/02/09/us-shooting-judge-idUSTRE7187JH20110209