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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/giffords-eye-surgery-successful.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Gabrielle Giffords has undergone successful eye surgery (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-giffords-eye-surgery-successful.jpg" alt="Gabrielle Giffords has undergone successful eye surgery (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Doctors have successfully operated on shot congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords&#8217; eye socket to remove bone fragments as she continues to show more signs of improvement.</p>
<p>They said there were no complications from the surgery and Ms Giffords is improving so much that she was able to give her husband a pat on the back.</p>
<p>Dr Randall Friese said astronaut Mark Kelly also told doctors he saw Ms Giffords smile. The doctor said sometimes people see what they want to see, but that &#8220;if he says she&#8217;s smiling, I buy it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Giffords still cannot speak because of a tracheotomy done so the breathing tube could be removed from her mouth.</p>
<p>Dr Michael Lemole said the eye operation entailed making an incision above the eyebrow, removing bone chips to relieve pressure and reconstructing the roof of the socket.</p>
<p>Ms Giffords responded from the moment she arrived at the emergency room on January after being shot point blank in the head on January 8 outside a store in Tuscon, Arizona.</p>
<p>At first she squeezed a doctor&#8217;s hand, then she raised two fingers. She opened her unbandaged eye shortly after President Barack Obama&#8217;s bedside visit last Wednesday.</p>
<p>Then, more milestones &#8211; which doctors said were all indicative of higher cognitive function &#8211; were achieved, all with her husband at her side.</p>
<p>Mr Kelly asked her to give him a thumbs-up if she could hear him. She did more than that. She slowly raised her left arm. By the end of the week, she had moved her legs and arms.</p>
<p>Ms Giffords and 18 others were shot when a gunman opened fire at a meet-and-greet she was hosting outside a supermarket in her own hometown. Six people died.</p>
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