Giffords Watches Hour of TV
CNN reports:
Gabrielle Giffords watched an hour of television from her hospital bed, a development her husband Mark Kelly called "exciting," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a friend of Giffords who spoke to Kelly Tuesday.
"Last night or the night before she watched television -- it was CNN in fact --- and the fact that she was able to do that for about an hour, in terms of attention span, they were pretty excited about that," Wasserman said.
The Democrat from Florida added Kelly remains optimistic that his wife will make a full recovery.
"Doctors continue to tell them they're hopeful about how much she'll recover. With each day she's able to do things that are a little more complex than she had been doing before," she said.
Giffords has been in the intensive care unit at the University of Texas Memorial Hermann Hospital since Friday afternoon. She was transferred here from the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, where she was treated since being shot January 8.
