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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/shot-congresswoman-making-progress.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Gravely wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been upgraded from critical to serious condition (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-shot-congresswoman-making-progress.jpg" alt="Gravely wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been upgraded from critical to serious condition (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>In yet another sign of significant recovery during a remarkable week, the gravely wounded US Representative Gabrielle Giffords has been upgraded from critical to serious condition after a procedure to remove her from a ventilator was successful.</p>
<p>Doctors have been positive, and at time almost giddy, in describing her progress since she was shot point blank in the head on January 8.</p>
<p>Ms Giffords responded from the moment she arrived at the emergency room, at first just squeezing a doctor&#8217;s hand. Then she raised two fingers. She opened her unbandaged eye shortly after President Barack Obama&#8217;s bedside visit on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Then, more milestones &#8211; which doctors said were all indicative of higher cognitive function &#8211; were achieved, all with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, at her side. 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>At the hospital, more than 100 people were gathered amid the sea of get-well balloons and cards when the University of Arizona put out a statement upgrading her condition.</p>
<p>Doctors decided to upgrade her condition because the tracheotomy done a day earlier was uneventful, hospital spokeswoman Katie Riley said.</p>
<p>A feeding tube was also put in on Saturday, and doctors speculated that they might soon know if she could speak.</p>
<p>Few people survive a bullet to the brain &#8211; just 10% &#8211; and some end up in a vegetative state.</p>
<p>It is even more rare for people with gunshot wounds to the head to regain all of their abilities, and doctors have cautioned that the full extent of Ms Giffords&#8217; recovery remains uncertain.</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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