The announcement late Tuesday night came after her husband said she had watched an hour of television from her hospital bed.
Her husband, Mark Kelly, called the development “‘exciting,’ ” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a friend of Giffords.
“Last night or the night before she watched television — it was CNN in fact — and the fact that she was able to do that for about an hour, in terms of attention span, they were pretty excited about that,” Wasserman said.
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The Democrat from Florida added Kelly remains optimistic that his wife will make a full recovery.
“Doctors continue to tell them they’re hopeful about how much she’ll recover. With each day she’s able to do things that are a little more complex than she had been doing before,” she said.
