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Good News from Tucson

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Via the NYTimes, “Husband Offers Message From Giffords’s Bedside“:

On a day when Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s condition was upgraded to serious from critical, her husband, Mark Kelly, spoke publicly for the first time on Sunday. He left his wife’s hospital bedside to take the stage at a memorial service for Gabriel Zimmerman, an aide who was killed in the shooting rampage that left Ms. Giffords grievously wounded.
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Mr. Kelly told the several hundred mourners gathered in the courtyard at the Tucson Museum of Art that he had just come from the hospital and that his wife was “improving a little bit each day. She’s a fighter.”
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“I know someday she’ll get to tell you how she felt about Gabe herself,” Mr. Kelly said.
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His wife loved Mr. Zimmerman “like a younger brother,” he said, and was inspired by “his idealism, his strength and his warmth.” …

Click through for a lovely article, with more information about several of the people involved.

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  3. 3.

    General Stuck

    Good news indeed, and nothing short of miraculous. Just wasn’t her time, I guess, and that is all aces for her family and the country.

  4. 4.

    MonkeyBoy

    This should appear in every post for for a while.

    If things don’t look right because of the WordPress upgrade, try refreshing the cache.
    __
    In most browsers this done with Ctrl-F5 and Ctrl-Shift-R and Command-F5.

  5. 5.

    Linda Featheringill

    Very nice article in the NYT.

    The fellow who is in a mental facility “for observation”: It might be good if he was referred to a VA psych facility. They have some very good programs for dealing with PTSD and just plain trauma victims. Goodness knows that poor man has been traumatized. I wish him well. And I hope he is left alone by the press.

    Everyone else seems to be healing, which is a very good thing.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    I try to check for how she’s doing every day, too. Maybe I have been hoping for too much, but I so want her to be able to talk, as well as move around.

    Edited because I decided it wouldn’t be productive to share my worries in this forum.

  9. 9.

    Allan

    @MonkeyBoy: Doesn’t fix anything for me, but thanks for the suggestion.

    Note to John: I go to every other blog in creation using Windows 7/IE 8 and the text returns at the right margin without requiring any addtional action on my part. You might consider making your blog work like that.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @Allan: Take heart – it’s only the first day of the new rollout. They didn’t say they were done fixing things, they said they were taking time to catch their breath.

  18. 18.

    gbear

    @WaterGirl: Well, yeah, except that John basically told everyone using IE to stuff it a few threads back. I second Allan’s comment. The formatting is often so screwed up that the posts are unreadable.

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    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Yutsano:

    Just puts text in a monospaced font in which numeral 1 and lowercase L and other ambiguous characters are, um, unambiguous.

    Replying from bed. Droid version still sketchy. Night-night.

  20. 20.

    Nick

    Slightly OT

    Looks like the media’s speech honeymoon is over

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/01/14/obama-fails-to-win-over-partisans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wsj/washwire/feed+(WSJ.com:+Washington+Wire)

    For all the accolades President Barack Obama has won for his call to end the blame game and restore civility, there is one audience he has failed to win over: the ones pointing the fingers.
    Partisans on the left and the right continued Friday to say it is right to call the other side to account. They said Mr. Obama’s speech in Tucson Wednesday night amounted to a ducking of tough choices, not a heroic embrace of ambiguity.

    It’s almost like saying “Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor speech fails to win over Japan”

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    John - A Motley Moose

    It sure would be nice if the NY Times headline writers read the first couple of sentences of the articles before writing the headline. If you say someone gave a statement from a bedside, they should at least be in the hospital when they do it.

  22. 22.

    sfinny

    To me it is still amazing that Gabby Gifford is alive and progressing. Can’t imagine how hard it has been on the family and I appreciate that her husband would leave her side to mourn and give thanks for her aide, Mr. Zimmerman.

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    Yutsano

    @suzanne: TYPEWRITERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!

    Oh wait…they only exist in their font anymore. Never mind. :)

    @sfinny: To me this says as much about Gabby as it does her doctors and other care staff. Something is still inside her wishing to exist once again in this world. Hopefully it can emerge in some meaningful way.

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    sfinny

    Wait a minute, this is courier? It seems better than usual, and I’m still getting used to the whole thing about no two spaces after periods.

    Yutsano: I have no idea how damaged Gabby Gifford’s brain may be, but she is definitely fighting to make it.

  28. 28.

    Martin

    @gbear: Designing for IE is maddening. I gave up on it as well. If a company as large as MS can’t figure out how to do compliant HTML by this point, then fuck them.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    @gbear: Yea, I saw that from John, but I wonder if it wasn’t just heat of the moment frustration. I’m sure this was a tough day for both John and Stacy, so I remain optimistic.

    Edit: on the other hand, Martin does have a point!

  30. 30.

    Sophist

    So, anyone care to wager on how long it takes someone to find some sort of blood libel hidden in this statement? I’m guessing noon tomorrow, at the absolute latest. Frankly, I’m surprised Gifford’s trying so hard to get out of the hospital so quickly. The crazy is getting pretty thick out here in the world, and were I her I might be tempted to linger a bit. I guess she’s braver than I am.

  33. 33.

    Martin

    @Joseph Nobles:

    body {
    color: black;
    font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 74%;
    }

    It’ll pick the fonts in the order listed, based on what the user has installed.

  36. 36.

    Ecks

    @NobodySpecial: Oh. Well what does it mean that I’ve flashed my cache, and now it looks good in Chrome too. Is that madness?

    And if I can’t tell, does that mean I’m mad? Wait, don’t answer that.

  38. 38.

    harlana

    wow, mess with my mind!

    btw, I had an early morning rant about the “mentally ill” Eric Fuller wherein somebody assumed I could not read and thought I was ranting about him – I want to correct that, I was ranting specifically about Tea Partiers and the call the “tone down the rhetoric” which put my nose out of joint – needless to say, I did not tone it down. I was CUI (commenting under the influence) so sorry I was misunderstood. I guess putting Fuller on the same level as TP’rs got to me.

  39. 39.

    madmatt

    Why should anybody give a shit about this bitch who spent her entire political career making sure EVERY WHACK JOB who wanted one could get a gun. She has never given a damn about victims of gun violence. Now that she is one we are supposed to be supportive…Id rather she died and the 9 year old who had potential to be a decent human being lived. Sadly the corrupt, hateful c#nt lives and becomes more popular day by day. Fuck her!

  40. 40.

    AxelFoley

    @madmatt: Why should anybody give a shit about this bitch who spent her entire political career making sure EVERY WHACK JOB who wanted one could get a gun. She has never given a damn about victims of gun violence. Now that she is one we are supposed to be supportive…Id rather she died and the 9 year old who had potential to be a decent human being lived. Sadly the corrupt, hateful c#nt lives and becomes more popular day by day. Fuck her!

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, muthafucka. Take that shit somewhere else.

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    @AxelFoley: Everyone ignored that post for an hour and a half, which I think pretty much sends that same message. Big thanks to everyone for not engaging!

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    I’m glad Gabby is doing better. Good news, indeed. I, too, hope she will be able to talk on her own soon.

    Site looks fine in Chrome for me, but I do not have the most recent update. I probably will hold off given how fucked-up the site is in Chrome for other people.

    ETA: I think WaterGirl has the right attitude–and, AxelFoley said it better, anyway.

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    Ecks

    @asiangrrlMN: I think my chrome is up to date. It was fine once I blanked my cache and/or posted a message. I wouldn’t hold yourself back on account of here.

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    WaterGirl

    @asiangrrlMN: I listened to the live report from Rhee and other physicians in AZ this morning. My takeaway was that she is opening her eyes more and that they think she is processing more complex stuff than she was before.

    I think it’s gonna be a longer road than I hoped, but I am feeling more hopeful than I was yesterday.

    They also said this would be the last live report, which also supports the idea that this will be a long recovery. They also had the 2 daughters of one of the other shooting victims, first reading a statement from the dad and then taking questions.

    It’s becoming more and more apparent to me that the whole outcome would have been different if this terrible thing hadn’t happened so close to a premiere medical institution.

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