Is there anyway to get updates of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's medical status?

[MoonRiver]

I so want her to not just survive, but be physically and mentally intact.

[Barack_America]

1. These questions will likely not be answered for many days.

And we only need to know what her family wishes to reveal.

[charlie]

2. Not for a while

Rhee the University Medical Center surgeon said neurosurgeons had finished operating on Giffords and she was under anesthesia. She was being taken to intensive care. Rhee said he would know better in 24 hours what the prognosis is. He said the congresswoman was following commands, a good sign, he said.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/08/20110108arizona-giffords-brk.html

[MoonRiver]

6. Ok,

we need prayers everybody.

[hlthe2b]

3. Only what the family permits health care personnel & media to release

I think they will update as major changes occur, but this is both a short-term and prognostically, a long-term waiting game.

[marybourg]

4. Former Surgeon General Cremona is giving a presser right now. .

"Hoping she'll Survive . . difficult path. . .cautiously optimistic"

[Lint Head]

5. Me too!

Brain swelling in the next too days is critical. There may be very little if the head shot was not directly into the brain.
There will still be swelling around the wound area. Apparently she hasn't lost a lot of blood.

[MoonRiver]

8. That sounds optimistic!

Go Gabby!

[charlie]

10. The article I linked above

says it passed through her brain.

[bettyellen]

7. just reported "guarded optimism that she will saty alive" not good

very serevre injry, .... monitoring her closely"
docs will have a press conference on Sunday.

[bettyellen]

9. "when she wakes up....head wound.....no specofics....."

[RB TexLa]

11. Depends on what advance directives she has, but most likely her husband will decide what private

medical information you get and when you get it.