Gabby Giffords' comeback: Word by word, step by step

[Judi Lynn]

Gabby Giffords' comeback: Word by word, step by step
Susan Page, USA TODAY 2:48 p.m. EDT September 28, 2014

A day with Giffords and husband Mark Kelly at their suburban Tucson house gives a glimpse into how far she has come since the shooting, and how far she wants to go.



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— Gabby Giffords is stuck.

Sitting at her kitchen table, nose-to-nose with speech therapist Fabi Hirsch, the former Arizona congresswoman is painstakingly practicing the brief speech she plans to deliver this fall at appearances advocating tighter gun laws. The text in front of her reads, "We stand for common sense," but to her growing frustration she keeps saying, "We stand for common self."

Hirsch says the phrase alone a few times as Giffords closes her eyes to listen. Then they recite it together, slowly. Finally Giffords nails it: "We stand for common sense."

Next sentence.

Word by word, step by step, inch by inch, Gabby Giffords is coming back from the assassination attempt in suburban Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011, which killed six people and sent a bullet into her brain.

Spurred by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School two years later, she and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, founded Americans for Responsible Solutions. Their new book, Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence, is being published Monday by Scribner — a sort of sequel to their 2012 book, Gabby, which chronicled the shooting and her all-but-miraculous survival.

More:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/28/day-in-the-life-of-gabby-giffords/16281013/

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1. Judi Lynn

Judi Lynn

A brave woman - no doubt about it... And I guess stubborn also, who sometimes is a good strait

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[Jefferson23]

2. Remarkable individual. K&R

[sheshe2]

3. Gabby is a remarkable woman.nt

[ChazInAz]

4. Great lady.

I used to work in an office at the same Pima and Swan streets building that she used. Occasionally I'd drop in to say "Hi", and kvetch about her fellow congress-critters. She always had time for us mere citizens, over the wealthy.
Love me some Gabby!

[Paladin]

5. Get 'em, Gabby.

Go after the pro-gun movement under a black flag---no mercy, no consideration. It's the only approach they understand, the only approach they're entitled to, the only approach that will ultimately prevail. God bless you and your efforts.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. K&R! Amazing lady! Thanks so much for posting this!