Tag: Giffords and Kelly
Gabby Giffords
Posted: January 27, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
Gabby Giffords squelched all talk about whether she would run again for another term in Congress by resigning this week. I must say, I am not at all surprised. A part of me was fearful that she would run again for lack of awareness is very common for TBI survivors. I thought I could go […]
Read more...Fifteen Years
Posted: August 26, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, creative, Giffords and Kelly, Kushner, rainbow
On August 26, 1996, I sustained my traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Water and rainbows had always been healing to me but throughout these years on my journey, they’ve been a real comfort. When I was first injured, we lived in an apartment in Atlanta. I couldn’t drive yet but I would often […]
Read more...“Trial and Error”
Posted: August 19, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, Giffords and Kelly
It’s already starting. Arizona state senator Frank Antenori is pushing Rep. Gabrielle Gillords to say if she is planning to run for reelection. (see article in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/gabrielle-giffords-reelection-frank-antenori_n_931155.html) Of course she isn’t required to file until May 15 but politics can be ugly business. Huffinton Post wrote, “Speculation on Giffords‘ future has buzzed since […]
Read more...Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Posted: February 5, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Giffords and Kelly, journey, TBI history
I read in today’s paper the following: “Space shuttle commander Mark Kelly wouldn’t go into details about her condition during a news conference Friday and deflected questions about how he knows she supports his choice to fly.” His wife, Gabrielle Giffords, sustained a gunshot wound to her head at a “meet in greet” in Arizona […]
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