saturday. dad is so deeply saddened by the loss of his friend and fellow staff member, gabe zimmerman and long-time friend chief judge john roll. our thoughts and prayers are with the other victims and their families during their recovery. we would also like to express our sincere gratitude to daniel hernandez whose clear thinking and actions in the midst of chaos undoubtedly helped to save congresswoman giffords life. we would also like to personally thank anna balast who applied pressure to my dad s wounds until the paramedics arrived. we are greatly indebted to her. my dad has worked in the public sector for this community for almost 40 years. he was with the division of developmental disabilities for 34 years, most of that time as the director for southern arizona. he retired in 2006 and began
close some wounds that were created during his original surgery, and he is healing incredibly well. his pain is being managed by his nursing staff. he s expected to make a full recovery. so we re really happy about that. the person who was putting pressure on his wound, could you talk about that person? he remembers everything so clearly. we just found out who she was yesterday. there was an article in today s star about her, a friend at the star helped me identify her because in sunday s paper there was no identification. so we were able to find out who she was and actually i spoke with her yesterday, anna hollis is her name. and ron is very keen to speak
close some wounds that were created during his original surgery and he is healing incredibly well. his pain is being managed by his nursing staff and he s expected to make a full recovery. so we re really happy about that. the person who operated on his wounds, can we talk to that person. we just found out who she is yesterday. and there was an article in today s star about her friend that the star helped me identify her because in the photo in sunday s paper, there s no identification. i m sure the photographer couldn t get close enough. and so we were able to find out who she was and actually i spoke with her yesterday and anna wallace is here name and ron is very keen to speak with her.
rapidly at some particular time and can actually go in a negative fashion and a downward way as well. i m happy to state that none of the downward events have occurred at this time, which is exactly what we wanted to happen at this point. and we have really decreased the amount of sedation that we re giving her, and as a result of that, she s becoming more and more spontaneous all the time. other than that, there will be no other additional information that i m going to be giving about the congresswoman at this time. i will not be taking questions regarding her status, either. at this time period what i would also like to do is i d like to introduce two family members who are going to make a brief statement. after the brief statement we ll open it up for a very short period of questions and answers, and then we ll conclude at that time period. we have the family members of ronald barber and nancy barber here, jenny douglas is going to talk. we also have nancy barber,