participate and cooperate and make improvements on a daily basis. we re very happy. so as dr. rhee said, the congresswoman continues to do well newer logically, you ve heard everything out there like, for example, she is beginning to stand with assistance, she s scrolled through an ipad, these are all fantastic advancements forward that do indicate higher cognitive function. but i do want to caution everyone that she has a long road ahead of area and rehabilitation will be very important, we ve started that process here, we hope to continue that process at the next facility, where she visits. from a neurosurgical point of view we did do minor procedures. don t want to go into great deil. one included revision of one of her wounds but in a sense much of this is house keeping, it s really getting her to position where she can graduate from this hospital. on that, i ll pass it on to her husband.
jon: we begin your second hour with a fox news alert. i m jon scott, along with jenna lee, major medical developments regarding tkpwo b gabrielle giffords. peats go to peter rhee. we will have comments and then have questions and answers. congresswoman giffords is doing well, we re pleased with her progression. that s enlightening for us, because we put them in the first couple of weeks, after injureo, it s somewhat significant and progress noetic of how she s going to do in the future. we re still doing the usual routine, things with her, which includes speech therapy, as well as aggressive physical therapy, and she continues to
texas. so i m extremely hopeful that gabby is going to make a full recovery. i ve told her that. she recognizes it. she s a strong person, a fighter. i mean, she is a fighter like you know nobody else that i know. so i am extremely confident that she s going to be back here and back at work soon. i ve been telling the hospital staff that she should they should expect to see her walking through these halls and within the icu in a couple of months. i m sure of that. so she ll be back. one of the reasons she s going to be back is because of the excellent care she s received here, from dr. peter rhee and michael lamole, the other trauma surgeons, the other neurosurgeons, the opthalmology care, all the way up and down the chain here at umc, she has received nothing less than