One August day I was outside in front of our home playing hopscotch with some of the other girls in the neighborhood, when I realized I did not feel well. A few days later, my right arm was paralyzed.

Marty has overcome the difficulties of her physical limitations due to childhood Polio so that she can enjoy time on the water with her family.

I contracted polio when I was 5. We lived in West Virginia, where there was only a small clinic. . .

I contracted polio in Amarillo, Texas in October 1952, when I was 3 1/2 years old. No one in my family knows where I might have contracted the virus.