HOUSTON (AP) - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be moved to a rehabilation facility Wednesday morning after doctors upgraded her condition from serious to good, said the Houston hospital overseeing the Arizona congresswoman's recovery.
Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Hospital said Tuesday that her doctors have determined she is ready to move to TIRR Memorial Hermann, another facility at the hospital where her rehabilitation will begin. It said that transfer was scheduled for sometime Wednesday morning, pending a review of her condition.
Giffords had been kept in intensive care since her arrival Friday at the Houston hospital from Tucson, where she had been hospitalized since the Jan. 8 shooting. Doctors in Texas said she had been given a tube to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid.
Everyone makes such fluid, but an injury can cause the fluid to not be cleared away as rapidly as normal. A backup can cause pressure and swelling within the brain.
Giffords was critically wounded in the rampage that killed six people and injured 12 others. She was shot in the forehead while meeting with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket.
The suspect in that rampage, Jared Loughner, pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of trying to assassinate the three-term Democratic congresswoman and two of her aides.
