Gabby Giffords, Five Months Later

A Giffords staffer updates us on the congresswoman's condition:

She is borrowing upon other ways of communicating. Her words are back more and more now, but she’s still using facial expressions as a way to express. Pointing. Gesturing. Add it all together, and she’s able to express the basics of what she wants or needs. But, when it comes to a bigger and more complex thought that requires words, that’s where she’s had the trouble.

Amy Davidson empathizes.