I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Bob Woodruff and his wife Lee today.  They are the authors of  the best selling book In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing.

    Woodruff, you may recall, is the ABC news anchor seriously wounded in Iraq when an IED exploded near the convoy in which he was riding.  Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury, and his survival and recovery are nothing short of miraculous. 

    The book he authored with his wife is the story of Bob's recovery, but it is also the story of the incredible effort to keep a man, a family, and a marriage intact when tragedy strikes - as the title suggests - in an instant. By most accounts, Bob should not have survived the blast. His cameraman Doug Vogt also suffered a serious but less life threatening injury.  But the injury to Bob's head and neck also threatened his voice, his speech, his memory, his motor skills and many other critical brain functions.  The odds of making it through a 36 day coma with all of that intact were astronomical.  Bob beat the odds thanks in no small measure to the love of his family and the dedication of his remarkable wife Lee.

    The book is - to use an old journalism maxim - a good story, well told.  It serves as a reminder that all of us have much to gain, and much to lose...in an instant.  It is a reminder that we have much for which to be thankful. 

(l-r) Bob Woodruff of ABC, his wife Lee, WCVB anchors Natalie Jacobson and Anthony Everett