"In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing"
A Conversation with Bob Woodruff Story aired: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
A suicide car bomb killed nine U.S. paratroopers and wounded 20 in Baghdad yesterday, the worst attack on American ground forces in Iraq in more than a year.
The number of casualties in the war continues to mount, but Bob Woodruff says, not all of them get the medical care and attention he did, and that's something he wants to change.
Bob, a foreign correspondent for ABC, was just appointed the new anchor of ABC News when he, and his cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by a roadside bomb while embedded with American and Iraqi troops outside Baghdad on January 29, 2006.
His wife Lee, the mother of their four young children, got the call that Woodruff had survived the blast, but had suffered a traumatic brain injury -- his head was literally blown apart.
Woodruff was treated in the field, airlifted to Germany, and then flown back to the U.S. He awoke from a long coma to face months of painful rehab here in the states. Life had changed "in an instant" which is also the title of the couple's new book.
