Peter Kavanagh discusses his battles against “really bad odds,” documented in his memoir The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times.
By Jennifer Wells Feature Writer
Sun., April 12, 2015
A hospital bed is pushed up against the wall of a bedroom in the ranch-style bungalow. There is a dresser and a small desk in the room. On one wall, the wall against which the bed is pushed, is a window.
What do you see?
“All I see is the tree…It’s just green and when it’s not green it’s bare.”
Peter Kavanagh is recalling a time four decades past. Stricken with paralytic poliomyelitis during the epidemic of 1953, he has lived a physical life of what he calls “really bad odds,” a story the former CBC producer has brought to life in his memoir, The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times.
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