Giffords leaves Tucson for Texas rehab center

[The Straight Story]

TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords has left a Tucson hospital for a rehab center in Texas, less than two weeks after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt that killed six.

Giffords is traveling by ambulance to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base with an escort from a group of motorcycle riders from a Veterans of Foreign Wars post who know her.

From there, she'll be taken by medical flight to a Houston airport.

Then she'll be moved by helicopter to the ICU at Texas Medical Center, where she'll be evaluated and then taken to the center's rehabilitation hospital, the TIRR Memorial Hermann Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, a world-class facility that treats people for conditions ranging from brain and spinal cord injury to multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41188722/ns/us_news-life/

[elias49]

1. Federal Employees Health Care...lucky lady.

Most other folks would be re-mortgaging their homes about now.

Just ask the republicans.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. I'm sure she's doped mightily now, but

I hope that the videos of the crowd will help strengthen her in her recovery.

I'm sitting here :applause:ing and :cry:ing at the same time.

[ceile]

3. Wonderful facility

Here's to her recovery. :toast:

edit meant to reply to OP.