From Deseret News archives:
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Wing was injured Feb. 24 as he sauntered down Regent Street on his way to Starbucks with three other colleagues. The four friends were about two-thirds of the way down the block that morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee trying to parallel park suddenly accelerated, pinning Wing and Gary McKellar against a wall. Seconds later, photographer Keith Johnson was dragged by the Jeep when he put it into reverse in an attempt to free his friends. A fourth News staffer, Mark Reece, was uninjured.
The road back from Regent Street for Wing has included an amputation and six additional surgeries, plus months of rehab and strength training as he gets used to walking with a prosthetic leg. He's been walking on the leg since the end of July, and by now, even though he's still getting used to the mechanics of putting one foot in front of the other, the leg has become such a natural part of him that he's sometimes startled it's there.
Wing thinks of the accident "not as a setback at all, just a little pause." It's an attitude he learned from his parents, he says. His father has suffered from Parkinson's disease, and his mother had a radical mastectomy, and neither of them has ever complained, he says. And, too, there has been the constant support of his wife, Julie, his co-workers, neighbors, friends and strangers. Complaints, bitterness, regrets "I don't think it was ever an option for me," he says.
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