Photo: Mark Kelly Sits By Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' Hospital Bed

[Ptah]

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2011/01/11/photo-mark-kelly-sits-by-congresswoman-gabrielle-giffords-hospital-bed

[tallahasseedem]

1. Absolutely beautiful...

I weep for them and the challenges they are and will be facing.

[TygrBright]

2. Wow. Just wow. That's iconic. n/t

[tabatha]

3. Her healing can only be enormously improved

with this. He is the best as far as husbands go.

(Her skin is a little on the yellow side.)

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. I thought she looked a bit yellow as well.

No doubt the team is watching her liver though with all the drugs they have her on.

[tabatha]

6. I am also concerned about the daily Cat scans

but they are necessary.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. Are they a cancer risk?

My Dad had weekly cat scans before he died. He had cancer, but I don't recall any risks/warnings from his Docs. Unfortunately, I am not medically aware and do not know these things.

[tabatha]

9. CT scans are an important tool in all sorts of

treatment, including cancer. (I thankfully, have only had one.)

I know one young person who was cured of aggressive cancer, and had frequent cat scans. He is OK now.

This from wikipedia

"In 2009 a number of studies appeared that further defined the risk of cancer that may be caused by CT scans.<15> One study indicated that radiation by CT scans is often higher and more variable than cited and each of the 19,500 CT scans that are daily performed in the US is equivalent to 30 to 442 chest x-rays in radiation. It has been estimated that CT radiation exposure will result in 29,000 new cancer cases just from the CT scans performed in 2007.<15> The most common cancers caused by CT are thought to be lung cancer, colon cancer and leukemia with younger people and women more at risk. These conclusions, however, are criticized by the American College of Radiology (ACR) that maintains that the life expectancy of CT scanned patients is not that of the general population and that the model of calculating cancer is based on total body radiation exposure and thus faulty.<15>"

[MissB]

4. Beautiful picture.

[stevedeshazer]

7. We've all been in that picture at least one time in our lives, maybe more

I think it is really touching.

:(

[politicasista]

10. ...

:grouphug: