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, [...]