Why is she on a ventilator?I thought she was breathing on her own? Something tells me she is in worse condition than reported.
Prayers up for Gabrielle.
OK, I have officially OD’d on “feel sorry for Giffords” threads.
What about the hundreds that have been murdered, raped, beaten, terrorized, robbed or killed by drunk drivers that are illegal immigrants? Where is the media and where is OUR outrage?
Yes, I am sorry that a crazy fool in Tucson killed 6 people and a Congresswoman was shot.
Where was the anger over the rancher/border patrolman/etc that were murdered by drug dealers and other trash crossing our borders?
I will by avoiding all Giffords-related threads.
Is this the ACTUAL headline of this story?
An arrogant writer that either has a flare for the dramatic, or thinks his readers are ignorant.
The reports continue to sound encouraging, a seeming miracle considering the extent of her injuries. Prayers for her and her family in this uncertain time.
This is strange. If she’s not on a vent, then the trach would be neededfor her to protect her airway, which leads me to think she’s either not conscious or she’s have difficyluty swallowing. Somebody in the media isn’t being honest. Listening to news reports they practically have her ready for discharge.
tracheotomy likely done at the get-go to put her on the vent in the first place... they’re in the process of weaning her from the vent.
Yes, it does sound like she’s worse then recently reported. Prayers for her and her family.
Sheesh, I am seriously over dosed on these Giffords threads. I feel bad for her, I’ll even pray for her, but what makes her so damn special? what about the others? NOBODY made this big of a fuss over the victims at fort Hood. It’s getting to the point of being ridiculous.
breaking news?
I am sorry for the Giffords family and the other victims of the shooting. The little girl broke my heart. But a 27 year old cop was shot in cold blood in New Jersey the other day, a border guard was murdered last month and murders occur almost every day. I cannot dredge up more feeling for Giffords than I feel for all these others just because she is a congresscritter. I don’t consider that that makes me heartless. In fact, the demands of the demonRATs that we should not, now, vote on repealing BOcare, or any of the other things the new congress is set to do is specious and self serving.
As to Giffords injuries...as hard as this sounds, the people need to get set for a special election. Barring some fantastic miracle (which is not beyond God’s abilities), she is not going back to congress. I am a registered respiratory therapist, retired after 32 years on the job. The nature of her wound cannot be pushed aside by a desire to see her back at the capitol with her seat safe from a special election where a rep might win. She was hyperventilated as a matter of course to help keep her brain swelling down and after 24 hours they began to wean her off the vent. One can definately be on a ventilator and still be breathing on one’s own. The trach and the feeding tube are necessary to facilitate long term care, and that is what I see happening here. Brain damage very often leads to an unstable airway and aspiration is always a possibility. She may, in time, be even more functional than James Brady. Maybe not.
I hope she recovers ASAP. My first reaction (not being a doc) is this sounds like a step backward. I hope I am wrong.
A breathing hole? What is she, a whale?
Prayers up!
I don’t if it helps any of the speculation going on but I just heard she has been upgraded to serious.
No, no, no. The media insists they inserted a tube down her “NECK”.
Good thing she was a democrat, otherwise that bullet would have hit something functional.
Calling Ricky Gervais, she's such a PITA that her husband leaves the PLANET to get away from her.
Sorry, trying to inject a little humor.