DGF to Donate $12,000 Wheelchair to Westminster Resident at Craig Hospital, June 21

Craig Hospital to host Michael Johnson, racecar driver living with paralysis ENGLEWOOD, Colo. —Craig Hospital and Coloplast will host paraplegic race car driver Michael Johnson at a meet-and-greet event on Friday, June 21 from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.  Also at the event, Jim Jennings, a former Craig Hospital patient and resident of Westminster, Col., will be presented with a new $12,000 power wheelchair donated by the Darrell Gwynn Foundation. The Darrell Gwynn Foundation’s mission is to provide SUPPORT for those living with paralysis and PREVENT spinal cord injuries. Craig patients and alumni will join Johnson at a festival featuring music, free wheelchair service and repair and a lunch catered by Steuben’s Food Truck. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Johnson, sit in his car, and hear his inspirational story. In 2005, at the age of 12, Johnson was injured during a dirt-track motorcycle competition which left him paralyzed from the mid-chest down. At the time of the accident he was already a 14-time motorcycle-racing champion. Despite having no feeling in his legs, he never gave up his drive to race competitively. Johnson is currently competing in The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda and his goal is to be… Read More