One year after ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and Canadian cameraman Doug Vogt were injured in a bomb attack in Iraq, both men have managed to survive and slowly recover.
Speaking to Canada AM on Monday, Vogt called his recuperation a miracle.
"I've had a very miraculous recovery. I recovered physically thanks to a very successful operation, and psychologically fairly quickly," said Vogt. "It's taken a few months, but I think I'm pretty much 100 per cent back to where I was, and even though the doctors aren't going to say it, I may be even a little bit better than before."
Vogt and Woodruff were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and travelling with U.S. and Iraqi troops when an improvised explosive device detonated near Taji, which is about 20 kilometres north of Baghdad.
"I was injured on the site and I woke up on top of the tank while the insurgent attack was happening again," said Vogt. "Bob fell into the tank... when I came down inside the tank that was the first time I saw Bob. He was bleeding heavily from the neck and from the head but he was talking and making sense... he wasn't unconscious."
Both sustained head injuries in the incident, with Woodruff also suffering some broken bones.
The two men were first treated at a military hospital in Iraq, where they underwent surgery before being taken to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, the largest U.S. military hospital outside of the U.S.
They were then taken to another military hospital in Bethesda, Maryland for further treatment.
"We see each other frequently in New York... and we telephone each other frequently," Vogt said of his current relationship with Woodruff.
The 46-year-old cameraman said the incident has made him reevaluate his career as a war cameraman and he now plans to get involved in cinema work.
Vogt, 46, has been a cameraman for 25 years and has won three Emmy awards. He has spent the last 20 years based in Europe and has covered global events for the CBC and BBC. He lives in Aix-en-Provence, France.
