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April
2007 Website of the Month
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Northeast
Center for Special Care is pleased to feature:
Bob Woodruff Foundation
http://remind.org/
Our website of the Month for April 2007 continues the
incredible story of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff. Most of our
readers know that in January of 2006 while Mr.
Woodruff was an imbedded journalist with American
forces in Iraq, both he and his cameraman Doug Vogt
were hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), and Mr. Woodruff
suffered an nearly fatal traumatic brain injury (TBI).
For the next year millions of people followed the news
reports of his rehabilitation and progress - over the
past year we have linked to dozens of articles on our
news feed about this.
Bob Woodruff didn't simply return to work as an
individual recovering from an injury - he returned as
an advocate; not only for the soldiers who have
experienced a brain injury - the signature injury of
the Iraq war - but also for all persons whose life was
instantly changed by a traumatic brain injury and
their families. Like Michael J. Fox for
Parkinson's, Christopher Reeve for spinal cord injury,
Bob Woodruff, by the nature of his injury and recovery
has given a public persona to traumatic brain
injury. And Mr. Woodruff is not sitting idly-by
which brings us to our website of the month.
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The Bob
Woodruff Foundation
is a not-for-profit organization created to
raise awareness and to raise money to
support organizations that help those suffering from
the physical and psychological wounds of war and
ensuring our heroes of war to return home to the
assistance they need to successfully reintegrate back
into society.
After awakening from his medically induced coma and
experiencing the intensive therapy required to recover
Mr. Woodruff became determined bring brain injury to
the public conscience and focus light on brain
injury. The foundation and accompanying website was started by the
Woodruff family.
In February of 2007 Bob Woodruff returned to ABC news
and began turning personal injury into public
inquiry. Over the next two months there was a
series of well-publicized news reports and a primetime
special. The Woodruff family also spoke candidly
of the experience and shared intimate images of Mr.
Woodruff's recovery - some very stark and graphic, but
that allowed the general public to begin to understand the
significance of a traumatic brain injury.
In 2007, the book: In
An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing,
was released and became a New York Times best
seller. Since then, Bob Woodruff has been continuing to
appear on national and local interview programs as
well as news reports about brain injury, and he has significantly
helped to educate the public about TBI and related
conditions.
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In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and
Healing - "In one of the most anticipated
books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her
husband, Bob Woodruff, share their
never-before-told story of romance, resilience,
and survival following the tragedy that
transformed their lives and gripped a
nation."
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When
you log-onto the
Bob
Woodruff Foundation
website you can learn more about the organization, and
its purpose. When the website was created in 2007
the original focus was on traumatic brain injury - since
then the purpose of the foundation has expanded to
include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and
combat related symptoms.
Mr. Woodruff and his family are doing a great service through the
Bob
Woodruff Foundation
website and organization. Even in its short
existence there has been a great deal of awareness
raised about traumatic brain injury and PTSD, and we expect over
the years it will make a great contribution to the
overall understanding of combat related injuries and support for our
servicemen and women and their reintegration back
home. Visit the Bob
Woodruff Foundation,
and learn more about what they do. You can help
support the foundation from the website.
Northeast Center for Special Care is pleased to present
the Bob
Woodruff Foundation
as our website of the month for April, 2007. They are
just a click
away, and don't forget to bookmark them so you can visit
again.
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