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| 62. My Mother had infantile paraylsis(polio) at 3 yrs old, very early 1920's. |
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My grandmother told her that she had to learn to walk again. It was also when she began to use her left hand for many things. I suspect she suffered from PPS as an adult.
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| -Have you ever met a polio survivor? |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 01:49 PM |
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Yes, a guy I went to college with. |
The Velveteen Ocelot |
May-02-10 01:52 PM |
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If you don't mind - can you give us your age? I'm thinking |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 01:58 PM |
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A lady never reveals her age... |
The Velveteen Ocelot |
May-02-10 02:03 PM |
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That's nonsense.... I grew up in Los Alamos, and being a governement town of scientists, |
bobbolink |
May-02-10 02:08 PM |
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The theory seems to be that if you're exposed when very young, |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 02:13 PM |
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Since in those days there wasn't much that people could do, I think it was a case of making |
bobbolink |
May-02-10 02:20 PM |
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It was BECAUSE of sanitation, not the lack of it |
GoCubsGo |
May-03-10 07:13 AM |
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My understanding is that the epidemic was caused by |
TexasProgresive |
May-02-10 02:56 PM |
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That sounds plausible, until you consider that while the disease was decribed and |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 07:20 PM |
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It's not that polio was unknown just that a combination of |
TexasProgresive |
May-02-10 08:55 PM |
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Met them, went to school with them, worked with them. What a |
rzemanfl |
May-02-10 01:54 PM |
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Yes... |
kentuck |
May-02-10 01:55 PM |
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Best friend's Dad |
BeatleBoot |
May-02-10 01:55 PM |
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I was born in 52 and I knew a couple of guy who had a limp from polio. |
elocs |
May-02-10 01:55 PM |
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Yes two that I know of. |
peace13 |
May-02-10 01:56 PM |
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My grandmother was a survivor. |
stevedeshazer |
May-02-10 01:56 PM |
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My Grandmother was one |
underseasurveyor |
May-02-10 01:57 PM |
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My former mother-in-law. |
watrwefitinfor |
May-02-10 01:58 PM |
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Had several in my family. Nt |
xchrom |
May-02-10 02:00 PM |
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Had several in my family. Nt |
xchrom |
May-02-10 02:00 PM |
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Yes, my mother. |
crim son |
May-02-10 02:00 PM |
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My 4th grade teacher back in the early 70's. |
Iggo |
May-02-10 02:01 PM |
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A few. |
CC |
May-02-10 02:01 PM |
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She probably had post-polio syndrome. They only identified it later in life with the survivors. nt |
Hekate |
May-02-10 02:52 PM |
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I know OF one - Joani Mitchell. |
old mark |
May-02-10 02:02 PM |
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I forgot about this... yes, it had a large effect on Joni Mitchell. |
bobbolink |
May-02-10 02:10 PM |
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Mia Farrow had it, too |
kskiska |
May-03-10 03:20 PM |
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Every time I look in the mirror |
Warpy |
May-02-10 02:03 PM |
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I think there are actually three types of polio virus, so your mother |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 02:09 PM |
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Yes, one of my childhood classmates. |
foxfeet |
May-02-10 02:03 PM |
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When the Sabin vaccine came around, the "publics" went to the public school |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 02:07 PM |
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Several. |
madamesilverspurs |
May-02-10 02:04 PM |
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Yes, a fellow student in college |
FarCenter |
May-02-10 02:10 PM |
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My dad |
tammywammy |
May-02-10 02:10 PM |
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Yes, my uncle Arthur. He had the best private care money could buy. |
Walk away |
May-02-10 02:10 PM |
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Yes, a neighbor, probably born around 1950-52. |
Gormy Cuss |
May-02-10 02:12 PM |
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I used to work with one, and know one from my favorite bar |
slackmaster |
May-02-10 02:13 PM |
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When i was a kid in the 70's there were a whole lot of people with leg braces |
slampoet |
May-02-10 02:14 PM |
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Yes, there were some polio survivors among my classmates in college |
Lydia Leftcoast |
May-02-10 02:15 PM |
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Dozens |
Dogmudgeon |
May-02-10 02:15 PM |
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Known and know several |
madokie |
May-02-10 02:15 PM |
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I worked with an older female nurse who had post polio syndrome |
hlthe2b |
May-02-10 02:15 PM |
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Your experience in India is another hint that good sanitation |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 07:23 PM |
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Martha Mason wrote her memoir, "Breath" |
Stardust |
May-02-10 11:22 PM |
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My camp counselor when I was a kid had had polio. |
bobbolink |
May-02-10 02:17 PM |
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Yes, I knew kids with polio when I was young, |
Blue_In_AK |
May-02-10 02:17 PM |
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I was raised by one |
Birthmark |
May-02-10 02:25 PM |
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Yes, a man I worked with had a withered right arm from polio |
distantearlywarning |
May-02-10 02:27 PM |
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No, but I had a cousin who died from it |
DebbieCDC |
May-02-10 02:28 PM |
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Yes. My aunt. |
Warren DeMontague |
May-02-10 02:29 PM |
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My little sis had polio.....I think she was about three and I was five.. |
Tippy |
May-02-10 02:30 PM |
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It would be very intersting to be able to go back and find out if the |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 07:25 PM |
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Some people have stronger immune systems. When my bro and I had our first smallpox vax... |
Hekate |
May-02-10 11:04 PM |
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My memory is not as good as it once was....But I believe |
Tippy |
May-03-10 06:59 AM |
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my aunt |
Enrique |
May-02-10 02:30 PM |
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My best friend in high school and college survived polio |
Stinky The Clown |
May-02-10 02:30 PM |
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Mrs. Handrich, my third grade teacher |
phaseolus |
May-02-10 02:33 PM |
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My brother had polio at 4yrs of age |
katmondoo |
May-02-10 02:34 PM |
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I know several |
wellstone dem |
May-02-10 02:34 PM |
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Yes, He was an older man, born in the 1920s. |
enlightenment |
May-02-10 02:41 PM |
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There were always a few in every school with heavy braces and crutches. They had to be able to... |
Hekate |
May-02-10 02:44 PM |
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I've been surprised at the responses - I always had the notion that while terrifying, polio was |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 07:27 PM |
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naw, "not back" then it wasn't |
Skittles |
May-02-10 11:29 PM |
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My better-half had polio at nine months, leaving her right shoulder totally paralyzed. |
indepat |
May-02-10 02:44 PM |
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That sounds like a description of post polio syndrome. |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 07:29 PM |
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One of most severe cases doctors at the NIH had ever seen when she was there in the early '90s |
indepat |
May-03-10 03:11 PM |
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Not that I've ever met him, but Itzhak Perlman..... |
frebrd |
May-02-10 02:54 PM |
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Another fairly well-known survivor: Tenley Albright, fhe champion figure skater |
Berry Cool |
May-02-10 10:36 PM |
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My mother is a polio survivor. Also breast cancer and many other maladies. |
NYC_SKP |
May-02-10 02:55 PM |
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yes, my stepfather. got it as an adult. walked with a slight limp & had one slightly |
Hannah Bell |
May-02-10 02:57 PM |
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I had polio when I was 3 or 4 |
Synicus Maximus |
May-02-10 02:58 PM |
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I have cared for several with Post-Polio syndrome |
w8liftinglady |
May-02-10 02:58 PM |
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Thanks for that. That must have been what my mother had. |
Hassin Bin Sober |
May-02-10 07:40 PM |
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I've had a number of post polio claimants over the years. |
hollowdweller |
May-02-10 08:05 PM |
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I was born in '54 |
canetoad |
May-02-10 03:03 PM |
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My father. |
frustrated_lefty |
May-02-10 03:16 PM |
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"I think like any good parents would do" |
PassingFair |
May-02-10 03:28 PM |
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Umm...I'm not defending the church. |
frustrated_lefty |
May-02-10 07:33 PM |
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Yes, my uncle. |
Zoeisright |
May-02-10 03:18 PM |
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My Mother had infantile paraylsis(polio) at 3 yrs old, very early 1920's. |
Blue Diadem |
May-02-10 03:20 PM |
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My youngest sister... |
laylah |
May-02-10 03:24 PM |
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My cousin Henry is a survivor |
RockaFowler |
May-02-10 03:27 PM |
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Alan Alda is a polio survivor. So is Frank Schaeffer |
Love Bug |
May-02-10 03:36 PM |
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Wasn't Dinah Shore also a polio survivor? nt |
Captain Hilts |
May-02-10 04:04 PM |
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My paternal grandfather's fourth wife - a feisty old lady from Texas |
haele |
May-02-10 03:37 PM |
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My grandmother was born in 1896 and had polio when she was two. |
Jane Austin |
May-02-10 03:37 PM |
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My Aunt is a polio survivor. Thankfully she was just left with a |
polly7 |
May-02-10 03:49 PM |
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Yes. One of my 7th grade teachers. nt |
LWolf |
May-02-10 03:50 PM |
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When I was a child there was a kid down the street who wore leg braces |
pipi_k |
May-02-10 03:55 PM |
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My great-aunt's younger brother n/t |
freeplessinseattle |
May-02-10 03:57 PM |
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Mitch McConnell is one. nt |
Captain Hilts |
May-02-10 04:04 PM |
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Many times during the 1950s there would be a couple of kids |
Obamanaut |
May-02-10 04:06 PM |
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yes |
quaker bill |
May-02-10 04:09 PM |
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I had a great uncle who survived polio, one of the sisters did not |
HillbillyBob |
May-02-10 04:17 PM |
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I had polio from the 1954 epidemic |
Submariner |
May-02-10 04:20 PM |
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For those interested, PBS documentary "The Polio Crusade" is available to watch online: |
Garbo 2004 |
May-02-10 05:16 PM |
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Wow! What a great link. Thanks. |
Hassin Bin Sober |
May-02-10 08:55 PM |
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Yes |
Oilwellian |
May-02-10 05:22 PM |
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My cousin is a survivor. |
aikoaiko |
May-02-10 05:48 PM |
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My aunt |
demtenjeep |
May-02-10 05:49 PM |
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My 48-year-old cousin is a polio survivor. |
DailyGrind51 |
May-02-10 05:49 PM |
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Wow, that is a very young age for being a polio survivor. |
sufrommich |
May-03-10 07:10 AM |
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I'm not sure, I just know that one of his legs is under-developed and he has a speech impediment, |
DailyGrind51 |
May-03-10 04:28 PM |
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My father. |
KittyWampus |
May-02-10 06:10 PM |
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Me, I'm 58 |
Philosoraptor |
May-02-10 06:18 PM |
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They wear funny hats and ride silly little cars in parades, |
hedgehog |
May-02-10 07:33 PM |
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No, I never met one. |
sakabatou |
May-02-10 06:20 PM |
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Growing up, I met plenty from my parents' generation |
struggle4progress |
May-02-10 06:24 PM |
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Please remember the one important fact about polio.... Salk did NOT patent his vaccine! |
bobbolink |
May-02-10 06:59 PM |
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Interesting! Thanks or that tidbit. |
Hassin Bin Sober |
May-02-10 07:32 PM |
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I've worked with this one: |
MilesColtrane |
May-02-10 07:01 PM |
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Yes, a friends wife who is around 60.. |
undeterred |
May-02-10 07:02 PM |
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yes. one of my German teachers in elementary school |
nickinSTL |
May-02-10 07:06 PM |
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Polio was far too common when I was a child, I knew kids who got it. |
ThomWV |
May-02-10 07:17 PM |
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My neighbor is a polio survivor |
merh |
May-02-10 07:20 PM |
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My mother, when she was in her early teens. |
MrsMatt |
May-02-10 07:23 PM |
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Yep... took care of many of them who progress from depending on an iron lung. |
MrMickeysMom |
May-02-10 07:24 PM |
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Yes |
blogslut |
May-02-10 07:30 PM |
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Yes, I knew 2 people that were close to me |
goclark |
May-02-10 07:56 PM |
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My mom's cousin Jan. |
Starry Messenger |
May-02-10 07:59 PM |
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Yes, a childhood playmate up my street. |
WinkyDink |
May-02-10 08:01 PM |
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A Co Worker who was in our QA Unit |
hollowdweller |
May-02-10 08:02 PM |
#109 |
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Yes |
Angry Dragon |
May-02-10 08:10 PM |
#111 |
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One of my aunts |
havocmom |
May-02-10 08:11 PM |
#112 |
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The valdictorian of my high school class was a polio victim |
csziggy |
May-02-10 08:16 PM |
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I have a second cousin on my mother's side who had it |
AwakeAtLast |
May-02-10 08:43 PM |
#114 |
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My high school history teacher. walked with braces |
Liberal_in_LA |
May-02-10 08:58 PM |
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I worked for one once. |
Berry Cool |
May-02-10 10:24 PM |
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My first wife's mom... |
sendero |
May-02-10 10:29 PM |
#119 |
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My friend Jean is a polio survivor |
AnnieBW |
May-02-10 10:32 PM |
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1989 a 12yo in India. Father said vaccines not properly refrigerated. |
Festivito |
May-02-10 10:39 PM |
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I used to regularly visit people in a polio hospital, this was 1990 in Argentina. |
Common Sense Party |
May-02-10 10:51 PM |
#123 |
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My grandfather. He never wore shorts because one leg was much shorter |
ScreamingMeemie |
May-02-10 11:10 PM |
#125 |
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My father. |
kristopher |
May-02-10 11:24 PM |
#127 |
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Yes, two of my really old patients |
nadinbrzezinski |
May-02-10 11:25 PM |
#128 |
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My mom had a very mild case of polio when she was a kid in the 50s. |
bamacrat |
May-02-10 11:26 PM |
#129 |
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Yes. My downstairs neighbor has, as he says, |
Luminous Animal |
May-02-10 11:44 PM |
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My husband's father. He contracted polio while in the |
LibDemAlways |
May-02-10 11:52 PM |
#132 |
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My mother. |
lostnfound |
May-03-10 01:31 AM |
#133 |
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Had a great aunt who was wheelchair bound from polio- the woman |
JCMach1 |
May-03-10 02:26 AM |
#134 |
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In my neighborhood in the mid 50s just a few years before the Salk vaccine, three kids had polio |
diane in sf |
May-03-10 03:39 AM |
#135 |
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My Uncle Did |
NeedleCast |
May-03-10 07:05 AM |
#137 |
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3rd Grade Teacher in the 70's |
Bettie |
May-03-10 07:15 AM |
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Yes. One of my best friends had it as a child |
TZ |
May-03-10 07:58 AM |
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A grad student |
drmeow |
May-03-10 12:00 PM |
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Yes, I have, .... |
MicaelS |
May-03-10 12:05 PM |
#143 |
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My dad survived polio. |
geardaddy |
May-03-10 03:12 PM |
#145 |
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My closest female friend. |
Lorien |
May-03-10 03:25 PM |
#147 |
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Yes. A former co-worker. |
AngryOldDem |
May-03-10 03:45 PM |
#148 |
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My Dad. |
Horse with no Name |
May-03-10 04:48 PM |
#150 |
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When I thought "what an odd question", |
Old Troop |
May-03-10 05:18 PM |
#151 |
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Joni Mitchell is a polio survivor. Dated a polio survivor. Sweet gal. Hope she |
alfredo |
May-03-10 05:20 PM |
#152 |
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