Comments on: Lee Woodruff: the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and You, can help Traumatic Brain Injury survivors

By: Skember

Skember — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:04:52 +0000

Many thanks. The ideas you have presented have clarified many aspects of traumatic injury I’ve been musing over for some time as a non medical person with a great interest in memory

By: Alvaro Fernandez

Alvaro Fernandez — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:58:53 +0000

Dorothea: the CDC offers many resources, see http://www.cdc.gov/TraumaticInjury/

Tessa: well, Bob’s experience certainly suggests that the process of filming a documentary and writing a book has been an integral component of his ongoing recovery, so I’d encourage you to share your experience aswell!

By: Tessa Venell

Tessa Venell — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:16:01 +0000

Alvaro, I’m so happy to have come across this again. I am now considering writing a book about my brain injury recovery. It has been adamantly suggested by many colleagues, I have an editor and a funder who could be interested in involvement in this project. In a very idealistic way, I think this kind of project, like the Woodruff book, can help to improve recovery processes for patients. I have been sitting on the project now for a while, and I could be swayed either way. Alvaro, do you have any thoughts?

By: Carl A. Rudd

Carl A. Rudd — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:25:41 +0000

I am a survivor of brain injury.
It’s nice to see someone work as hard as you at your recovery, while helping others.
Carl R.

By: Dorothea Sams

Dorothea Sams — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:14:29 +0000

Do you have an educational program geared to the public in general — children in school in particular that will help in explaining brain injury and the impact on society — how to understand? how to avoid? how to deal with?

I am looking at putting together an education effort for the state of Montana at the public and private school facilities to educate children now so as to ensure when they become adults, not only will they have valuable personal health information for themselves and others, but won’t have to go begging to the legislature every year for a pittance of funding. Education at an early age will help to improve this situation.

Thank you.
Dorothea Sams (mother of a TBI individual)
406/449‑5108

By: Bill & Kathy Sutherland

Bill & Kathy Sutherland — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:15:52 +0000

Hi Alvaro,
Thank you so much for responding. We did eventually find an address and our Men’s Auxiliary from the VFW have already sent a check. We hope it helps.
Merry Christmas!
Bill and Kathy Sutherland
thank you

By: Alvaro Fernandez

Alvaro Fernandez — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:22:36 +0000

Address:

Bob Woodruff Foundation
PO Box 955
Bristow, VA 20136

By: Alvaro Fernandez

Alvaro Fernandez — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:19:27 +0000

Bill, I have forwarded your note to the Woodruff Foundation. Thank you very much.

Tessa, glad to hear about your recovery and creative rehabilitation process. I couldn’t agree more that stigma itself does not do any good, we need to raise the level of awareness to encourage recovery processes. Thank you for sharing your experience.

By: Tessa Venell

Tessa Venell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:49:36 +0000

My neurologist, Doug Katz at Braintree Rehab Hospital, recently gave me a copy of In An Instant, and I’m enjoying it; I’m finding parallels to my own recovery from a diffuse axonal injury sustained in a car accident in August 2006.
I recently returned from shooting a film in Beijing about the emerging environmental movement in China, but as I’m producing this film, I’m thinking about the next project.
It has been recommended to me that I write a book similar to In An Instant, to benefit others in similar situations. The stigma needs to be taken away from brain injury cases in order to improve recovery rates.

By: Kathy Sutherland

Kathy Sutherland — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:24:41 +0000

Our local VFW Post #4760 Men’s Auxiliary group would like to donate to this very worthy cause. We would like to send a check and can’t find a mailing address. Could you please provide? Thank you– Sincerly,
President
Bill Sutherland