Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 13:08 ET
At congresswoman's bedside, good news keeps coming
Doctors release more good news about Rep. Giffords as she emerges from a coma
If all goes well, she may be "out of the woods" on Friday, said Dr. Peter Rhee, Trauma and Critical Care Emergency Surgery doctor at University Medical Center.Even Gabrielle Giffords' doctors are starting to call her recovery a miracle.
Few people who take a bullet to the brain -- just 10 percent -- survive such a devastating wound.
Yet doctors say the critically injured congresswoman has been making steady progress each day since the assassination attempt on Saturday. Six people were shot and killed.
Giffords is moving both legs and both arms, has opened both eyes and is responding to friends and family, doctors said Thursday. They've helped her sit up and dangle her legs from the bed, and she is able to lift her legs.