Darwin Bolaños
Darwin Bolaños was a 35-year-old chauffeur in Ecuador when he lost both of his legs from the knee down in a traffic accident that devastated his family, particularly his 10-year-old daughter and six-year-old son.
“To see him go from being very healthy and fine one day to missing both legs the next was very hard,” said Anita Tello, Darwin’s wife. “It was very hard on our children, too. At first, they were just happy to see him alive. But after that, it was very hard on them. I had problems with my son in particular. It was very hard for him to accept the fact that he may not be able to play soccer and other games with his dad like the other kids could do with their dads.”
But Robert Openshaw, our prosthetist from San Bernardino, California, happened to have two prosthetic legs that fit Darwin perfectly, enabling him to begin walking on his own again.
”My children’s biggest dream is that their father come home today with both legs,” Tello said through tears of joy as Robert fitted her husband with his new legs. “It looks like their dream is going to come true.”
