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USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ds-rehab_N.htm

Propped up by medical staffers, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood for the first time Wednesday, sat in a chair and spent some time flipping through personal photos on an iPad with her husband Mark Kelly, her doctor said.


"She's doing very well, still progressing," says Peter Rhee, chief trauma surgeon at University Medical Center (UMC) in Tucson. "We've been able to get her up in her chair. She was able to look out the window today. It seems like she recognizes more and more people every day."


If all continues to go well, Giffords will be transferred Friday to TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston, according to a statement released by C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for the Arizona Democrat. The family considered rehabilitation hospitals in New York City, Chicago, Houston and Washington, D.C., the statement said.