By Eve Tahmincioglu
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to work yesterday, casting a vote in Congress and inspiring the nation with her recovery after being shot in the head in January.
But she returns a very different person both mentally and physically. According to a story in the Arizona Daily Star yesterday,
she can’t use her right arm, so she must write with her left. Her right leg has little feeling in it. Her hair is just growing back in from her last brain surgery in May, and she’s still working on her conversation skills.
The bullet traveled clear through the left side of her head, and in surgery to remove the fragments, some of the congresswoman’s brain had to be removed, too.
Giffords has received the best medical care, and her employer, the... More...
