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i had polio in 1958, i was just 3 mths old, mom did alot of things to help me through the yrs, i wear long leg braces & walk with crutches, & i also was a poster child for my area in 1967, how many of us still have the bracelet they gave us,
than ... (read more)
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I would just like to first start out by saying that my husband and I think your organization is wonderful. We had a premee baby born at 24 weeks gestation. She was only 675 grams or 1lb. 8oz. and 12.25 inches in length. She went through so much a ... (read more)
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I was the youngest of three children but was first to come down with polio. My mother was up for days taking care of us, but soon she also became ill. She and the rest of us were the flown down to Santa Monica Calif for rehab.There the three of us di ... (read more)
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I had polio in 1954. I was only 14 months old. I have no recollection of the event, only what I have been told by my family. I began walking very early in life. I used to stand up on the couch & look out the window waiting for my daddy to come home f ... (read more)
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your mama is named Evelyn Marie Kimbrough
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Polio at two years old a fight to survive.
Polio in my Golden years A fight to understand.
I learned to fight when I was youn, accepting who I was when others would not want the dance, the pom pom girl, the brownies thought I was a hazard, the ... (read more)
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I was born on May 7, 1948 in Puerto Rico. At age one I was stricken with Polio. At first it was thought that I had the flu or a virus. My mother and father had moved to New York City several months before I was stricken, in search of a better life, a ... (read more)
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In 1959 we were living in Orange County, CA, I had been receiving my Polio vaccines and was 21 months old. My mom says she came in to check on me before going to bed and I was turning blue, they rushed me to the hospital and later transferred me to ... (read more)
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I lived in Pgh at the time I had polio. I was 8 months old and when I was 3, I was the March of Dimes Polio Poster Child of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania.
I lived at the D T Watson Home for Crippled Chidlren when Jonas Salk was developing the ... (read more)
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My parents, my 2 older sisters, my 1 older brother and I lived on a small beautiful island that was part of The Bronx. Part of New York City. I was 2 1/2 years old when I got sick with polio. My mother said I would not stop crying no matter what they ... (read more)
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