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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: formerlurker on April 24, 2011, 06:45:52 PM

Title: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: formerlurker on April 24, 2011, 06:45:52 PM: Quote
Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait

PHOENIX -- Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. But the report Sunday in The Arizona Republic adds the congresswoman herself is planning to "walk a mountain."

Giffords uses her left side and has begun making limited use of her right arm and leg, a common effect of a bullet wound on the left side of the brain, said Dr. Gerard Francisco, chief medical officer at Houston's TIRR Memorial Hermann who works with Giffords daily.

"Her left side is perfect," said Pia Carusone, her legislative chief of staff. "She can do whatever you can do."

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/24/gabrielle-giffords-standing-on-own-trying-to-improve-gait/?ncid=webmail

Very encouraging story.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: compaqxp on April 24, 2011, 07:30:10 PM: I was just wondering how she was doing the other day. Nice to hear.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: namvet on April 24, 2011, 08:27:16 PM: medical now says she can attend her hubbys' launching at cape kennedy. but she'll have visitors. the wetsboro baptist church plans on showing up.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: BEG on April 24, 2011, 11:25:40 PM: This is good news. I wish her well.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on April 24, 2011, 11:42:44 PM: Quote from: namvet on April 24, 2011, 08:27:16 PM
medical now says she can attend her hubbys' launching at cape kennedy. but she'll have visitors. the wetsboro baptist church plans on showing up.

Put them on the shuttle and send them into the asteroid belt.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: rich_t on April 25, 2011, 04:02:48 AM: Quote from: WinOne4TheGipper on April 24, 2011, 11:42:44 PM
Put them on the shuttle and send them into the asteroid belt.

Put them under the exhaust nozzles during the launch.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: namvet on April 25, 2011, 07:40:06 AM: Quote from: rich_t on April 25, 2011, 04:02:48 AM
Put them under the exhaust nozzles during the launch.

exactly what i was thinking.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: Ptarmigan on April 25, 2011, 05:45:23 PM: Quote from: namvet on April 24, 2011, 08:27:16 PM
medical now says she can attend her hubbys' launching at cape kennedy. but she'll have visitors. the wetsboro baptist church plans on showing up.

Expose the Westboro Baptist Cult to 20 sieverts of nuclear radiation. Problem solved. :fuelfire: :-)
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: true_blood on April 26, 2011, 08:15:46 PM: Quote from: rich_t on April 25, 2011, 04:02:48 AM
Put them under the exhaust nozzles during the launch.
That's a great answer.
Trash usually gets burned anyways, so why not? :-)
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: Freeper on May 01, 2011, 03:30:12 PM: Quote from: compaqxp on April 24, 2011, 07:30:10 PM
I was just wondering how she was doing the other day. Nice to hear.

That's because our news media isn't big on good news. Now if she died or got worse it would be plastered all over the place.
Title: Re: Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
Post by: Rebel on May 02, 2011, 09:23:04 AM: Gotta love her husband's mission poster:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/NASA_STS-134_Official_Mission_Poster.jpg