Office of Gabrielle Giffords Release First Photos From Her Hospital Room

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Opens Her Eyes As Pelosi, Gillibrand and Wasserman Schultz Joyously Watch
Rep. Gabby Giffords, who took a bullet to the brain in Saturday's Tucson rampage, opened her eyes for the first time Wednesday night at the urging of her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, as three close Democratic friends from the House -- Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kirsten Gillibrand -- looked on in joyous disbelief. "Gabby, open your eyes, open your eyes," Gillibrand quoted Kelly in a phone call to CNN. She seemed to struggle momentarily but then managed t...

POLITICO: Pelosi Was in the Room When Giffords Opened Her Eyes
It's a borderline violation of the Hippocratic oath, but I'll let the doctors slide on this one. Wax replica of Pelosi greeting Giffords. CORRECTION: That's a photograph. Seriously, though - this is incredibly good news. TUCSON, Ariz. — Simple sentiments, spoken by family and some of her closest friends in Congress, inspired the beautiful “miracle” of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ open eyes Wednesday evening. Surrounded in her Hospital room by her husband, her parents, former ...

Fired!
Read below and post your view! TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Three employees at University Medical Center have been fired for violating patient Privacy in connection with accessing confidential medical records in last weekend's shooting rampage in Tucson. The Arizona Daily Star says a contracted nurse also was fired by the nurse's employer and the families of the affected patients were notified. All of the remaining injured patients in Saturday's shootings are at UMC, including Arizona congresswoman Ga...

Gabrielle Giffords' Difficult Path Back From a Brain Injury
Five years after Lee Woodruff’s ABC News anchor husband, Bob, was hit by a bomb in Iraq, he has experienced a miraculous outcome, and the pair now devote themselves to talking with families about brain injury and recovery. She offers some words of advice to Giffords’ family—and to the media....

Congresswoman Giffords' office releases first photos from hospital room
Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford's office released the first photos from her Hospital room a the University of Arizona Medical Center.  Both pictures do not show Congresswoman Gifford's face for good reason.  Instead, the pictures show her husband, Mark Kelly, holding her hand as she fights to recover.  The photos can be seen in the slideshow to the left.  I have included other pictures from the story after the Hospital photos. Doctors continue to be very optimistic about Giff...

Gabrielle Giffords Makes Progress (Photos)
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday night released new photographs of the congresswoman, who remains in critical condition after Saturday's Mass Shooting in Tucson, Ariz. The photos were taken Sunday in the congresswoman's room at University Medical Center. They show her husband Mark Kelly holding her hand. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband Mark Kelly holds her hand in her room at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. (Credit: Office...

Obama Lifts Spirits in Spite of Tragedy
TUCSON, Ariz. - It was an emotional memorial, and an uplifting rally at University of Arizona, as Arizona and the nation unite to remember the Victims of the shooting in Tucson. A moving tribute was given to those who died, those who survived, and the heroes of Saturday's attack --an attack that has touched the entire country. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended the service Wednesday night at McKale Center. Members of his cabinet, including Homeland Security secretary and form...

Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose
January 9th, 2011: Giffords can open her eyes, but because she is on a ventilator she can’t speak, said Rhee. January 12, 2011: President Barack Obama says that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has opened her eyes for the first time since being shot through the head on Saturday. The president says it happened a few minutes after he left her Hospital room Wednesday evening. ...

Gabrielle Giffords' First Hospital Photos Released
Office of Gabrielle Giffords ​Last night Gabrielle Giffords' office released photos of the wounded Arizona Congresswoman in her Hospital room at the University Medical Center. The photos were reportedly taken on Sunday, January 9. In each, she holds the hand of her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly. Neither photo shows Giffords' face, due to the severity of her head injuries. As we learned yesterday, she's able to breathe on her own, and doctors believe she has a 101 percent chance of surviv...

OOPS: Politico: Obama speech undercuts federal charge for judges murder. It may have been inad
OOPS: Politico: Obama Speech undercuts federal charge for judge’s Murder. It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama’s Speech to a memorial service it Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge Federal Prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage...

Atmosphere Of Hate: Death Threats Against Sarah Palin At An Unprecedented Level
Which is kind of ironic given that Palin herself has been targeted for creating an “atmosphere of hate” that led to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor’s team has been talking to security professionals. Since the shooting in Tucson, Palin has taken much heat for her “crosshairs” map that targ...

Bad Irony Alert: The Blood Libel on Palin Resulted Has Resulted in an Unprecedented Increase of Death Threats Against Palin
Hey media, maybe you will get your wish and someone can assassinate her, right?  As we sit here tonight we learn that Sarah Palin is getting unprecedented levels of threats against her and her family: An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor’s team has been talking to security professionals. Since the shooting in Tucson, Palin has taken much...

Sam Stein: Obama Re-Introduces The Human Element To The Giffords Tragedy
WASHINGTON -- It is when there is a human element to his presidency that Barack Obama tends to stand the tallest. And on Wednesday evening, as he spoke to 20,000-plus at a memorial service at the University of Arizona, there was, if nothing else, an emotional honesty to what he had to say. To a nation looking for clarity, Obama didn't pretend to have all the answers. There is, he noted, a tendency to demand "order" from "chaos," to try and "make sense out of that which seems senseless." Life d...

At Memorial, Obama Announces Giffords Opened Her Eyes
President Obama speaks at the Tucson, AZ memorial event (AP) NEXT » President Obama spoke at a memorial for those killed and injured in Saturday shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords outside a Tucson, Arizona Supermarket, and told the country, "There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen," and also referred to the debate, "It's important for us to paus...

McCarthy Pushes For Smaller Gun Clips After Tucson
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-L.I.) drafted Legislation today in response to the Arizona shootings to renew the ban on gun clips that carry more than 10 rounds. "As someone who’s experienced senseless gun violence firsthand, I’m praying for my colleague Rep. Gabrielle Giffords" (D-Ariz.) and other Victims of the Shopping Mall shootings last Saturday, McCarthy said in a statement. Jared L. Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect in the shootings, allegedly had an “extender&rdquo...;

Obama calls for an end to 'sharply polarised' US
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the memorial event, 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America', at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Arizona, on 12 January 2011. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama has appealed for an end to the "sharply polarised" debate that has consumed American politics in recent years and provided the backdrop to the aftermath of the bloody Assassination attempt against a congresswoman in Tucson. Speaking at a memorial event i...

Daniel Hernandez: In Praise of the Intern
Photo: David Becker / Getty Images While President Obama may have gotten some of the biggest cheers during Wednesday night's University of Arizona memorial service, Daniel Hernandez Jr. certainly had his moment, too. Hernandez is one of Senator Gabrielle Giffords' unpaid interns—and the guy who first ran to Giffords' aid. A Student at the University of Arizona, Hernandez had been Giffords' intern for less than a week when Saturday's shooting occurred. He was called a hero for his life-sa...

Images from Giffords's Hospital Room
Since the attack in Tucson on Saturday, we haven't seen many images from inside the walls of the University Medical Center where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is recuperating. Today, Giffords' office released a few photos taken inside her Hospital room. While they do not reveal much about the congresswoman's status, they do show her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, by her side. See the photos below: ...

Photos Show Husband Of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords By Her Side At Hospital
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Tuesday night released two photos taken inside the Hospital room where the Arizona Democrat is recovering after she was shot in the head on Saturday. U.S. Navy Captain Mark Kelly, Giffords's husband, is seen by her side and holding her hand in the two photographs, which her office said were taken in University Medical Center on Sunday, Jan. 9. "Thank you for your outpouring of support for all of the Victims of this senseless tragedy," the office wrote i...

Giffords hospital photos released
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) released the first images Tuesday night of the congresswoman’s room at University Medical Center in Tucson. One photo shows Giffords's Astronaut husband, Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, holding his wife’s hand. The pictures were taken Sunday. ...

Photos Of Gabrielle Giffords And Husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly
It’s been four days since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords suffered a bullet to the head during a shooting outside a Tucson, Arizona Safeway while meeting with her constituents, and she continues to make progress in her recovery. Now, the first photos of the Congresswoman since the weekend’s tragic shooting are out, showing her in her Hospital room, husband Astronaut Mark Kelly at her side. The photos show Giffords’ hand, wrapped in gauze, as it is being held by Kelly while he...

Read: Obamas Remarks at Tucson Memorial
Courtesy of Politico: To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the Students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand by you tomorrow. There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the f...

Backlash Grows Over Palin's 'Blood Libel' Claim
Sarah Palin's use of the loaded phrase "blood Libel" is attracting more attention and condemnation as the day goes on. The former Alaska Governor used the words to describe the claims of critics who said Palin deserved some of the blame for the Arizona shootings because of her fiery Rhetoric and her target-marked election map that put the sights on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), among others. But the phrase most often refers to an anti-Semitic myth that's been used to justi...

Pete King: We Need to Stop the Fear
Rep. Pete King thinks cops need the power to stop people carrying guns within 1,000 feet of federal officials because Americans are becoming afraid of listening to lawmakers in public. The powerful Long Island Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee thinks the Arizona shootings that killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) with a bullet hole in her head have deeply chilled regular Americans. "I’ve gotten people saying, 'Hey, you’re a good guy -- do...

At Arizona memorial, Obama urges a discussion that 'heals'
TUCSON, Ariz. — President Barack Obama played the part of "healer in chief" Wednesday night, honoring the Victims of Saturday's Mass Shooting while seeking to calm an increasingly angry political debate, urging all Americans to stop pointing fingers and "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.'' "I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand b...