long road ahead she has great potential for rehabilitation now that her tucson team has handed over responsibility for giffords care they said their goodbyes and will return to arizona im going to miss her a lot said tracy culbert the nurse who cared for giffords over the last two weeks in tucson and accompanied her on the plane shes a very gentle person and her personality is coming out with touches im very lucky to know her kelly doctors share details of gabrielle giffords progress giffords husband kelly who lives in houston said thursday that she soon would be back at work and predicted she would be walking around in a couple of weeks im extremely hopeful that gabby will make a full recovery he said she is a fighter like nobody else i know in other signs of progress giffords was taken outside thursday for the first time since the attack so she could get some sunlight she stood up wednesday for the first time with assistance and looked out of a hospital window giffords already has been able to scroll through an ipad one of many steps described by her doctors as fantastic achievements forward the associated press contributed to this report click here to return to the world news page