Imaginary friends from TV in the 1950’s
In the 1950’s, TV was fast becoming a babysitter for [...]
More bullying visits the crippled girl
A year or so after a kindergarten boy held me [...]
The crippled girl dances, skips and learns about mean kids
Early childhood was full of ups and downs for me, [...]
Crip shoes
For girls in the 50’s, a Buster Brown nightmare; for [...]
Even polio kids get vaccinated
When I was six, and a kindergartener who'd had a [...]
You can’t be grateful for something you don’t know you have
It was decades after polio treatment before I fully appreciated [...]
Mama and the physical therapists
In 1998, I found a letter my mother (who died [...]
Hospital food
I was in a rehab hospital for polio treatment in [...]
What is polio, how do you get it, and what’s it like when you do?
This first blog post will be the facts about polio, [...]