Darryl Won receiving tremendous support

JUST OVER a year ago,
Darry! Wen suffered a
tragedy that has permanent-
ly changed his life.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

on the Hill restaurant in West
Vancouver when he fell asleep at
the wheel.

“TL Jost control of the car and
hit a lamp post. | think it hap-
pened near Taylor Way,."' said
Won recently, as he sat outside of
George Pearson Hospital in Van-
couver on a sunny day with his
mother Helen.

victims, Won refuses to let despair
and depression get the best of
him.

“Totey to have a positive
outlook on life. I've always been a
positive person,’ said Won,

Since his accident, Won hits
been sent from one lospital to
another. After his accident he
woke up in Lions Gate Hospital,

After that it was a trip) via
B.Cos air ambulance service to
the Norman B. Nelon Rehabilita-
tion Centre in San Jose. Califor-
mia for another 44% months.

“ECs supposed to be a rehab
centre where you learn to get on
with vour life. To owas a Tittle
disappointed with it, | didn’t get
what f expected to. get,”’ said

under construction on Granville
Island. Won, who is originally
from the Vancouver Island com-
muniiy of Duncan, has iearned to
cope well with his disability.

His mother Helen, who smiles
shyly ay she stands next to his side,
credits everyone from ambulance
attendants fo doctors for the work
they have done for her son.

“Darryl’s been really fucky. A
lot of people have helped him and
have supported him.”*

And Won hirnself gives special
thanks to North Vancouver
paramedic Ross Hollaway, who
works out of Lions Gate Hospital,
and Brent Parks and Paul Leslie,
al of whom work with the B.C.
Ambulance Service's Infant
Transport team.

They transported Won to San
Jose. He says they made his trip
as comfortable a5 possibie.

“They were really good. [c's
small jet. smooth and quick,”
said Won.

North Shore resident Floyd
Lansing became intrigued with the
Infant Transport team and the
service it provides. He has just
finished producing and directing a
pilot televsion program called
Airborn 91! for Phil Reimer
Communications which is set to
air tonight at 8 p.m. on U-TV.

It will also be aired on
Knowledge Network.

In the half hour program, Lans-
ing profiles the Infant Transport
team by telling three stories, one
of which iy the Darryl Won saga.

“We started talking about do-
ing this last October and started
shooting it last March and we just
finished on May 14,”’ said Lans-
ing. ‘*We travelled with Ross
Hollaway, who works out of
Lions Gate Hospital. The gov-
ernment air service has six jets
based in Victoria which are used
as air ambulances and it also has
200 private-sector planes around
the province it can call on.”

Lansing said he was impressed
when he first met Won and adds
that he has now become a_ big
boosier for the air ambulance ser-
vice in B.C,

“He's got a really terrific at-
titude. He’s done a lot of promo-
tional work for this service."’

Won.

He has been at George Pearson
Hospital since March [8 and will
soon be moving into a con-
dominium complex currenily

where he spent five days. He was
then transferred to Shaughnessy
Hospital in Vancouver, where he
would stay for the next six
months.

The accident left Won a
quadriplegic; he is now confined
to a wheelchair. While such acci-
dents can be crippling both physi-
cally and emotionally for most

fC was just past 6 p.m. on a
night in April. Won, 24 at the
time, had been driving back to his
home in Vancouver’s West End
from his job at the Salmon House

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NEWS ohoto Mike Wakeficid

DARRYL WON and his mother Helen continue to keep a positive outlook on fife after a tragic car accident last year leit Won contined
to a wheelchair. Won’s stay will be featured in the television program Airborn 911 tonight at 8 p.m. on U-TY.

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