I answer the door and stare. I realize that most of my friends are, shall we say, unique, but this person has silver hair in an elaborate updo, a tutu, and ballet slippers. Also wings! Yep, those transparent fluttery things are definitely wings.

According to John T. Margie, US Marine Corp, Retired “It’s the training that makes the difference”.

Bonnie was only two; one minute she was walking and the next she was not. At age 22 she started a 45-year journey as an International Public Health advisor that would take her around the world.

Living through Polio and Covid-19: Historic Parallels

"I was told as a young child by the physical therapists that I would have to work harder and be better, than those who were not disabled. 'The world doesn’t owe you a living' I was told.”

She remembers the day she felt too tired to feed those chickens, and was too tired to hold her 9-month-old niece. Finally, the family doctor was called and her parents were told she had the “the flu or grippe”

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.

Barry McMahon, a 72-year-old retired film and video producer, received a diagnosis of acute paralytic polio in 1951 when he was 3 years old.

“Late in the summer of 1952, a microscopic virus entered my body and changed my life forever . . .”

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