In 1998, I found a letter my mother (who died in 1993) wrote to my father when I was learning to walk again.  He was in northern California looking for a home delivery milk route to buy while I was in the polio hospital in Santa Monica in 1951.  I believe that this was so that we could get out [...]

I was in a rehab hospital for polio treatment in Santa Monica, CA, for six months, after an initial isolation stay of two weeks in a small tiled room in a general hospital in Los Angeles.  The isolation period was heartbreaking for a three-year-old.  My parents could not touch me and stopped coming to see me so that I, and [...]

This first blog post will be the facts about polio, not my personal story.  Usually I will give you more story than data, but this is basic background FYI stuff about which people usually ask. Although I do not clearly remember in entirety my own battery of polio symptoms at age three, in that fateful year of 1951, what is [...]