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Subject: breaking news: giffords can now lip synch Twinkle Twinkle!
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:31:10 -0500 (EST)
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The paper also reported that Giffords has lip-synced the words to
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and, with help, has been filmed mouthing
the lyrics to "Happy Birthday" for her husband.
<http://www.aolnews.com/team/mara-gay/>
*Mara Gay* <http://www.aolnews.com/team/mara-gay/> Contributor
Gabrielle Giffords is rapidly regaining her ability to speak, mouthing
the words to song lyrics and beginning to talk in complete sentences,
according to her family and staff.
Just a month after being shot in the head at point-blank range in an
assassination attempt
<http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/08/congresswoman-gabrielle-giffords-shot-in-arizona/>,
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was even able to speak over the phone to
her astronaut brother-in-law in space.
"Hi, I'm good," Giffords told Scott Kelly, according to The New York
Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/us/14giffords.html?pagewanted=1&hp>.
Doctors have said the fast pace of the congresswoman's progress is
important and is a sign that she will likely be high-functioning, if not
fully recovered.
Her husband, NASA Capt. Mark Kelly, said doctors have told him his wife
is recovering on a "lightning-fast trajectory." He also said Giffords,
40, is able to communicate in disjointed sentences after first speaking
the word "toast" last week.
"It was reported just a few days ago that she said a single word and
what the word was, but since then this has really accelerated so you can
have, you know, what would be relatively a normal conversation with her
on some level," Kelly told NBC Nightly News
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41519704/ns/health-health_care/>.
Giffords is also able to walk around the rehabilitation center at TIRR
Memorial Hermann in Houston and has beat one of her nurses at
tic-tac-toe, according to an e-mail her mother sent to family and
friends. "Little miss overachiever is healing very fast," Giffords'
mother Gloria reportedly wrote. She said Giffords has gone from being
"kind of a limp noodle" to being "alert" and said she "sits up straight
with good posture."
The congresswoman's staff told ABC News
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-rep-gabrielle-giffords-lip-syncs-lyrics-songs/story?id=12909586>
she has even begun to receive briefings on Egypt and other current
events. "We tell her everything that's going on," Pia Carusone, the
congresswoman's chief of staff, told the Times. "Don't get the idea
she's speaking in paragraphs, but she definitely understands what we're
saying, and she's verbalizing."
The paper also reported that Giffords has lip-synced the words to
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and, with help, has been filmed mouthing
the lyrics to "Happy Birthday" for her husband.
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