Hospital releases CBS’ Dozier

CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier, who was seriously wounded during a car bombing in Baghdad in May that killed two of her colleagues, has been released from a Baltimore rehabilitation hospital.

Dozier, who has undergone more than a dozen surgeries since the attack and was released Wednesday, is now walking with crutches.

“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,” Dozier said in a statement released Thursday.

“The next step: continued outpatient rehab to get my body used to being in motion full-time,” she said, adding that the cards and e-mails she had received from around the country were “like having 10,000 guardian angels on my shoulders.”

Dozier said she has slowly realized how close she came to being killed along with cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan.

“My heart goes out to their families, and I know no words to stop their grief,” she said.