Docs: Giffords Could Leave Hospital in Weeks
The Wall Street Journal reports:
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords could leave her Tucson hospital within weeks or even days as she continues to recover from the shooting here nine days ago, her doctors said Monday.
Her family has begun to search for a rehabilitation center for the congresswoman to continue her treatment, doctors said.
"The family is looking at all their resources. They have the whole country available," G. Michael Lemole Jr., Ms. Giffords's neurosurgeon, said at a news conference Monday.
Meanwhile, federal officials are bracing for a possible legal battle to stop Ms. Giffords's accused shooter, Jared Loughner, from being tried outside of Arizona. Federal officials said Monday that they would fight to keep his trial in the state.
Mr. Loughner is being held in a federal detention facility near Phoenix after being charged in the Jan. 8 rampage at a Tucson supermarket that left six dead and 14 injured, including Ms. Giffords.
Doctors said the plans now underway for what is expected to be a long rehabilitation process amount to another testament to how rapidly and well Ms. Giffords is healing from a gunshot wound to the head. Doctors have called her survival and recovery miraculous.
