ROVING OFFICE (update on Gabby Giffords)

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As Giffords recuperates, her staff stays busy
By ZAIN SHAUK
Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle

The updates come to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from her bedside in Houston, news from Capitol Hill, Libya and Arizona relayed through a staff member with a laptop computer.

It's not the norm for Pia Carusone, Giffords' chief of staff, but as her boss recovers from a gunshot wound to the head, undergoing a rigorous daily rehabilitation routine, the halls at TIRR Memorial Hermann have become as much of a base for operations as locations in Arizona and Washington, D.C.

Carusone, who shuttles between Giffords' offices, now spends much of her time in Giffords' room at TIRR. She coordinates via her computer and BlackBerry with staff in Tucson and keeps Giffords' parents and husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, up-to-date on the staff's work.

Read a lot more at: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/7443528.html