Robert: In Our Own Words

Robert was born in in the hills of Appalachian coal country. “When I was seven months old, my Mother and Daddy noticed my runny nose and how much I was falling when I was trying to hold onto furniture and pull myself up. By the time the tests were completed, I couldn’t stand at all." The baby boy was whisked away to a polio clinic in Marmet, West Virginia. “Bobbie” as he became known, resided at the rehabilitative clinic for five years.

Many years later, after dealing with episodes of falling, chronic pain in his lower back and struggling being cold constantly, he was diagnosed as having the late effects of polio – called PPS. A Pastor, Robert has never lost his faith and has continued minster to others as he deals with chronic pain..