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April
2007 Website of the Month
Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury
http://www.bobwoodrufffamilyfund.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.
The
Bob
Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury
is a new not-for-profit organization "created to
raise awareness about TBI, and to raise money to
support organizations that help those suffering from
TBI to receive the best care possible."
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 fund and accompanying website was started by the
Woodruff family. A
significant event in the establishment of this
organization is that Mr. Woodruff has partnered with
the Brain Injury Association of America who will
administer the newly created Bob
Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury.
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 late February the book: In
An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing,
was released and became a New York Times best
seller. Bob Woodruff has been continuing to
appear on national and local interview programs and is
participating in a national book tour. Much of
what Mr. Woodruff has been doing is tied into Brain
Injury Awareness Month of 2007 and has significantly
helped to educate the public about brain injury and
recovery.
When
you log-onto the
Bob
Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury
website you can learn more about the organization, and
its purpose. The masthead of each page has images
of Mr. Woodruff at work in Iraq and a number of photos
taken with other brain injury survivors. Below the
website title are the words: "Support, prevent and
heal," which gives you a sense of the focus of this
fund.
There are video clips you can click-on taken from some
of the ABC news reports about Mr. Woodruff's
recovery. Most interesting is a twenty-minute video of Woodruff
answering viewers questions about his injury and
recovery. The video includes clips of Mr.
Woodruff's rehabilitation. Those of us at
Northeast Center who work everyday with traumatic brain
injury survivors find those clips quite familiar.
If you have not ever seen someone with a craniotomy or
who has impaired cognition, or word-finding problems as
a result of a brain injury you will find this
enlightening and significant. Mr. Woodruff and his family deserve
much praise for being so open with the difficult process
of rehabilitation from a TBI - once again some of these
images are graphic; but the heartening thing is to know
with the right help people like Bob Woodruff, who have
experienced an injury of this kind can recover.
On the website there is also information about traumatic
brain injury from the Brain Injury Association of
America. If you would like to see Mr. Woodruff on
television there is a schedule of upcoming appearances.
You can also find the schedule of his book tour
appearances, and readings.
From their site you can also purchase In An Instant:
A Family's Journey of Love and Healing, and you can
make donations online to the Bob
Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury.
Mr. Woodruff and his family are doing a great service through the Bob
Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury
website and organization. Even in its short
existence there has been a great deal of awareness
raised about traumatic brain injury and we expect over
the years it will make a great contribution to the
overall understanding of TBI and support for our
servicemen and women and anyone who has experienced
brain injury first-hand.
Northeast Center for Special Care is pleased to present
the Bob
Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury
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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