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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords moved by support after leaving Tucson hospital for Texas rehab facility
Originally Published:Friday, January 21st 2011, 7:49 AM
Updated: Friday, January 21st 2011, 5:20 PM
Massacre survivor Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was recuperating Friday in a Houston rehab center after she got a sweet sendoff from her Arizona hometown.
Throngs of well-wishers lining the streets of Tucson cheered and waved as Giffords' ambulance - escorted by a police motorcade - passed by on the way to the airport.
A doctor who rode with Giffords said she heard the cheers and "responded well to that."
"There was smiling, even tearing a bit," said Dr. Randall Friese of the University Medical Center in Tucson. "It was so wonderful to see so much support."
Giffords, who was also accompanied on the flight to Texas by her astronaut husband Mark Kelly and her mother, will be mending at the reknowned TIRR Memorial Hermann Institute for Rehabilitation and Research.
"She has a long road ahead of her," said Dr. Michael LeMole, UMC's chief of neurology.
Still, said LeMole, Giffords has made "fantastic advances" since she was shot through the head on Jan. 8 while meeting with constituents outside a Tucson grocery store.
Defying the odds, Giffords can now stand with help and has even scrolled through an iPad. But it's not clear if she can speak.
Kelly said she's mouthed words, but the breathing tube in her windpipe has made actual speaking impossible.
"She's be walking and talking in two months," Kelly predicted.
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