FROM PAGE B1 My second chance — by Robert Mould my right eye, and crushing close to cighty per cent of my head, causing significant brain damage. My right atm ties up with the Steering wheel, breaking the bones in it twice above my elbow and causes the bone to come through the skin. Larry Skulsh, a first aid at- tendant from Westar Timber, was driving the ‘oppposite” direction and saw the accident happen. Paul Mickalow, another Westar first aid attendant hears the acci- dent and arrives to help. At first Larry and Paul think I'm dead and instead work on Keith and Aaron, who were moving around in considerable pain. But Laurine Weget, from Kispiox Village, walks around the car and discovers me with blood pumping slowly out of my mouth. . She and some friends tum me onto my side, allowing my mouth to drain and causing my air pas- sage to clear and stay open. The attendants loaded me into a waiting ambulance and shipped me Off to hospital in Hazelton. ‘The doctors and nurses worked hard so they could fly me quickly to Vancouver. They did their best, bul gave little chance of me surviving such a serious injury. As I am loaded into the am- bulance, Dr. Etches, with tcars in his eyes, hugs my crying father, Brian Mould. _ I] was then on my way te an air ambulance waiting in Smithers. _ Three times while airborne they thought I died. But when we landed in Vancouver, I was some- how still alive, Some of the country’s best dac- tors happened to be in Vancouver that day for a medical meeting. ‘They heard about my tragic, al- most hopeless case, so they put the mesting on hold to operate on me. “They performed a 16-hour oper- ation and discovered my fourth lumbar vertebrae was completely shattered, but that somehow it did “Mot. appear to have pierced’ my “spinal cord. * They couldn’t operate on. the spinal column, however, until I could be rolled over on my front without harm. That couldn’t hap- pen until I had healed well enough for the 180-degree move- ment required. ‘Leaving me like, that was dangerous. If Twas to move even slightly I would be paralyzed from the waist dowi. I was put under 24-hour watch and was tied down securely. Since I was in a coma for the first five weeks, they didn’t have to worry too much. But when I came out I gave the medical staff new problems. I had @ sewn up mouth due to my broken jaw and a scrambied brain due to my head injury. I didn’t know who I was, what I was or what was happening around me, I fought continuously, breaking straps, pulling IVs and so on. . At times four to five hospital at- tendanis were needed to hold me down securely. The back doctor, one of Cana- da's best, was planning to go - through my side while I was lying on my back. « After a scries of delays they went ahead with the operation and it was thought to be a com- plete success. Yet the doctors still did not know the condition of my brain, which they thought might have been completely destroyed. As I became more and more aware of myself and my thoughts, I became more mobile in my hos- Pital. bed, cutting down on the drugs I took for pain, and my mouth was unwired so ] could speak. Then surprising things started to happen. Eye testing showed I could see well enough with my damaged eye to drive a car without eyeglasses, Another day I showed I was not paralyzed in any way, so my back operalion was totally successful. Talso regained complete use of my tight arm, which had been so badly broken doctors thought it would never be useful again. Thad major memory problems in that I uad forgotten my last 20 years, but I was able to learn any- thing anyone was willing to teach me. Doctors put me in a back brace that let me use a wheelchair and get out of my hospital room. Just to be able to get out of my bed on my own felt like I had travelled across Canada! I could not remember ever being out of the bed on my own, never mind the room J was sta- tioned in. Going out of the hospital to me felt like travelling around the world! T used gymnastics bars to learn tow to walk again. My mother gave me phone | numbers of old friends in Hazelton and Kitwanga. Doctors hoped the calls would jarmy memory. I did not know who J was call- ing, but did I ever shock the people who answered the phone. A fellow named Bob Williams in Kitwanga got mad, thinking it was some jetk making fun of his old friend Robert Mould. He and others bad seen me in Vancouver General Hospital, co- matose and covered hin cuts and bruises, connected. to tubes and machines, a right harm held to- gether by six metal pins, a face so swollen I was barely recog- nizable. Thirteen weeks later I was al- lowed to leave the hospital under strict supervision. I felt happy to ga, yet I was not really sure where I was being taken to. I got on a plane and flew to Smithers, B.C. The second part of Robert Mould’s story of survival will ap- pear in next week's paper. ‘ Anka’s Fresh Food & Desert Cafe You've never had honiemade cooking so good. Our decadent desserts are made fresh, from erate every day. 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The main problem relates to the short distance the water would drop, from the” Nechako Reservoir’s surface at the eastern end to turbines at the level of the - river bed below the dam -- about 80 metres, In contrast, at the western end of the reservoir the existing drop (or "head") is about 800 metres, or 10 times that height, through Mt; Dubose to the Kemano powerhouse. A longer falling distance releases more energy, whether the falling object is a piatio or a given volume of water. Water used to generate power at Kemano yields 10 times the power that it would if generators were installed at Kenney Dam. wee ok ° . . - : _— Power installations having access to such high heads are not common -- there . are some.in Europe and a few in the western United States. But they all make _ cereale AR EMER TLE: venvery “efficient yse of the water resource, just as our Kemang, powers lag say a - . 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