tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post8671208476220831135..comments2024-03-28T23:33:45.139-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : Sixty Years AgoComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-69207025768615756262015-04-16T05:36:49.528-04:002015-04-16T05:36:49.528-04:00My Dad told me when he was a kid in the '30...My Dad told me when he was a kid in the '30's / '40's, you could stand at a street corner and turning the four directions, see at least one victim of polio within a block of your location. A few classmates of his died of polio during summer vacations. Polio was a scourge!<br /><br />He told me that Jonas Salk was a miracle, that I did not understand how much the discovery of the vaccine changed life back then. He said it would be akin to discovering a cure for cancer.<br /><br />Different times to be sure - thanks for the post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-40990806159427983842015-04-12T18:14:58.919-04:002015-04-12T18:14:58.919-04:00My mother was almost totally paralyzed by polio in...My mother was almost totally paralyzed by polio in 1948. She had been a sparkling fox of a woman (from the family movies) and in a matter of days was trapped in a flaccid body. She went to Warm Springs, and recovered minimal use of her hands (she could crawl her hand, but not lift her arms)... nothing else. Her daily example of courage and spirit showed me what courage really is...so much greater than steroidal testeronic crap of Schwartzenegger, Norris or Stallone.<br />I grew up taking care of her.<br /><br />http://www.sdean.net/myfamily.htm#GoneBefore<br /><br />Among other things, I would take her in the wheel chair and operate the voting machine at her direction.<br /><br />And you damn well better believe the family had all our shots. I can remember standing in line for first the Salk and then the Sabin vaccines.Stewart Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06830186006689502072noreply@blogger.com