1. News
  2. AZPM News - Local, independent journalism from the NPR 89.1 newsroom
  3. Giffords home from hospital
 February 20, 2022

Giffords home from hospital

She was admitted earlier in the week for appendicitis.
by Associated Press

Gabby-Mark-Chuck HERO Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly and Chuck Huckelberry speak before the ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of Tucson's Jan. 8, 2011 mass shooting.
Christopher Conover/AZPM

Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was forced to give up her promising political career when she was disabled in a 2011 assassination attempt, announced Saturday she was leaving a hospital after being treated for appendicitis.

Giffords said on Twitter that she was “glad it's only appendicitis" and that she was grateful to her friends, family, medical team and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly.

The Arizona Democrat's office announced Wednesday that Kelly's wife had checked into a hospital and that he was returning to Arizona to be with her.

MORE: Arizona, Government, Mark Kelly, News
By posting comments, you agree to our
AZPM encourages comments, but comments that contain profanity, unrelated information, threats, libel, defamatory statements, obscenities, pornography or that violate the law are not allowed. Comments that promote commercial products or services are not allowed. Comments in violation of this policy will be removed. Continued posting of comments that violate this policy will result in the commenter being banned from the site.

By submitting your comments, you hereby give AZPM the right to post your comments and potentially use them in any other form of media operated by this institution.
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona