The 40-year-old, shot at point-blank range by a reportedly unstable gunman on Jan. 8, is talking more and more every day as she undergoes intensive rehabilitation in a hospital in Houston, Texas, said a spokesman Wednesday.
“All I can tell you is that she requested toast ... she asked for it at breakfast the other day. And she's speaking more and more and doing more and more with each passing day,” said the spokesman, C.J. Karamargin.
“Needless to say we are jubilant at this news ... We've said many times that the congresswoman is improving in all areas, and this is one of them,” he told AFP.
Democrat Giffords was gunned down in a shooting rampage that killed six people, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl, at a public meeting she was giving in Tucson, Arizona.
A bullet went through her brain. She was initially treated in intensive care in Tucson, but was transferred to Houston where she moved to the TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital at the end of January.
“The congresswoman is undergoing rigorous therapy every day, including speech therapy, and (doctors are) doing an absolutely fabulous job of working with her on all sorts of language and speech exercises,” said the spokesman.
“She too is working very hard, and clearly its paying off,” he added.
“We have a great combination ... We have a team at a world renowned hospital using their expertise and resources to push her, and we've got a congresswoman who has no shortage of grit and determination pushing herself.”
Giffords' husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, said last week that he will go ahead with leading the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavor — and forecast that his wife would attend the April 19 launch.read full
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