CENTER CITY - March 23, 2011 ? The
wife of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, was in Philadelphia last week and talked
to 5,000 audience, which are all nurses.
Lee Woodruff was especially elated
to reconnect with the very same nurse who helped save the life of her husband
in Iraq
five years ago.
Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt were on an assignment in Iraq back in
2006 reporting on the war when a homemade explosive device detonated near the
tank they were riding in.
As Lee Woodruff explains, the words of Lt. Colonel Debra Muhl, a registered
nurse, were beyond comfort, they were words of hope.
"[You] leaned over, you didn't think he was going to make it and you
just kept talking, saying you'd get him back to his family. As a wife, a
thousand miles away, I could cry right now," Lee addressed Debra.
Lee Woodruff was the main featured speaker at the Association of
periOperative Registered Nurses Congress at the Pennsylvania Convention
Center. The two, Lee and Debra, was reunited
there.
From her book, ?Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress,? Lee read an
excerpt. She spoke about her family?s
quest through her husband?s rehabilitation from his nerve-racking brain injury
and how physically and emotionally crucial nurses were.
Lee Woodruff said: "It's that care, it's the human factor that you get
especially from the nurses that's so important when your family is hanging in
the balance, waiting for news, or hoping your loved one is in good hands."
Lieutenant Colonel Debra Muhl, currently retired after 3 decades and a half
in the military, eight deployments, appreciates the thanks, however it?s Bob?s
betterment that really matters to her.
Debra shared that she is very happy Bob got back to his family, his children
and his wife, and that just make it for her.
Over the last five years, the Woodruffs and Lt. Colonel Muhl have kept in
touch with each other. It is crystal clear the indebtedness the Woodruffs have
for the Lt. Colonel and the rest of the medical staff hasn?t faded and even
gets stronger as time goes by.