From CBS News:
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, critically wounded in Iraq May 29, was released from Kernan Hospital Wednesday, and will continue her rehabilitation on an outpatient basis.
Dozier was reporting a story on May 29 while embedded with the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Baghdad when an explosion killed her camera crew — Britons Paul Douglas and James Brolan — as well as a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator.
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“Folks, I’m leaving hospitals behind, ahead of the deadline, or at least ahead of schedule. I’ve had a couple setbacks, and I still face a couple minor surgeries, but overall, the prognosis is far better than the docs had hoped just after I’d reached Germany. The teams at Balad, Landstuhl, and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. worked overtime – something like a dozen surgeries at least, including one that lasted 11 hours," Dozier said in a written statement.
"Just a few weeks later, I’m up on crutches and can even manage with a cane. It’s not pretty, but I’m walking on my own – and that, I also owe, to some hard-driving therapists at Kernan Hospital in Maryland, who kept saying, ‘Now try this…’"
The next step, Dozier says, is continued outpatient rehabilitation "to get my body used to being in motion full-time."
Dozier attributes the support of friends, family and colleagues to her continued recover. "That, together with all the amazing cards and e-mails from across the country, has really pulled me through. I’ve told friends it’s been like having 10,000 guardian angels on my shoulders," she said in a statement.
She also says she owes her life to the "quick actions of the 4th Infantry Division’s Sgt. Daniel Mootoosammy."
I am constantly amazed by the courage and bravery of combat reporters and combat photographers. Iraq has been the deadliest conflict for journalists in a quarter century. Like Iraqi civilians, the journalists too have paid a heavy toll.
Good luck to Ms. Dozier on her continued recovery.
After what happened with Cristiano da Matta yesterday, I needed some good news. Good luck with her recovery and keep da Matta in your prayers.
It’s becoming more dangerous to be a journalist in conflicts around the world. In Iraq, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Afghanistan–it seems a journalist is killed every week. It was bad enough when voices were silenced by oppressive regimes and draconian press restrictions…now they’re being directly targeted. I guess some are taking a bit too much to heart the old saying “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” What a sorry state of affairs. Best of luck to all those brave folks who go into conflict-torn regions armed with nothing but a camera and a press badge.