http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/us/20giffords.html
Giffords to Move to Rehabilitation
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: January 19, 2011
Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot through her head on Jan. 8, is likely to leave the intensive care unit of a Tucson hospital on Friday and move to the TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston to continue her recovery, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords said on Wednesday.
Her aides said that the timing of the move may change depending on Ms. Giffords’s health.
Ms. Giffords’ doctors have said repeatedly that she was making remarkable progress, considering the severity of her injury, but that it was impossible to predict how she would recover.
Her husband, Capt. Mark Kelly, a Naval officer and astronaut who lives in Houston, said in a statement that he chose the facility there in part because it is closer to Tucson and Ms. Giffords’s congressional district in southeastern Arizona than other centers the family considered.
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