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Small Steps

the Year I Got Polio
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Nov 05, 2018dixiedog rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I am grateful to have read Peg Kehret's story. What she and her friends endured was disheartening. I cannot imagine what it would have been like for the over 43,000 people, mainly children, who learned they had Poliomyelitis, Infantile Paralysis, (Polio) in the USA in 1949. Polio was a scare for many of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada. This book was, in particular, an interesting read for me after learning in my early 50s that I had been misdiagnosed with shingles when I was perhaps 13 years old. I had polio then and never knew it. I remember the line ups in school in the 1950s where we lined up class after class in alphabetical order shuffling to the nurses office for a booster or other needle. The needles were not the pin pricks we have today. I am glad that I read this book; it was very informative. It informs a reader ‎about how some inflicted persons overcame the disease and with the right early treatment designed by Elizabeth Kenny, they went on to lead successful lives; even having children. Others were not so lucky and succumbed to this horrible disease. Bless those in particular who went on the live their days in an iron lung. Recommended by Senior-Doctor-at-bass-fishing. D. A.