Speaker Details her Celebrity Husband's Recovery

Lee Woodruff, wife of ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, served as the keynote speaker at the second annual brain injury symposium hosted by the South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital on Wednesday in Brownsville.

The event brought together about 30 healthcare sponsors from across the Rio Grande Valley, and allowed brain injury survivors and family members the opportunity to talk with others who understand what they’ve been through.

Bob Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2006 while he was in Iraq covering the war and a roadside bomb exploded near him, crushing the left side of his skull as rocks from on top of the bomb acted like shrapnel. He was in a coma for 36 days and underwent months of therapy, particularly in language and cognitive areas.

Lee Woodruff said the message she wanted to pass along is that there is still hope when something as tragic as a

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