November 2024 Newsletter
Inside this issue: We have shared an extensive article by Richard L. Bruno, PhD along with tributes from all over the world.
Survivor Jim Smith - completely paralyzed from the neck down, his parents took him to the hospital and were told "take him home - the hospital if full". Jim has a special perspective on life with the effects of this terrible disease.
Her “Funny” Foot was no Laughing Matter.
I am an “inapparent” (often referred to as ‘non-paralytic’) polio survivor with PPS. My post-polio journey was long, painful and truly confusing. There was diagnosis, frightening mis-diagnosis and an enormous amount of self-doubt. Carol Ferguson
A Special Big Brother, Shirley Temple and the President
Josephine (Briggs) Gross was born in Deadwood, South Dakota…. She was diagnosed with Polio at the age of 4, and remembers very little of it, however does not feel as though she suffered with it very badly while she was sick.