I’m remembering my mother; a beautiful, delicate unassuming person who brought me through my initial bout with Polio and the resulting rehabilitation and surgeries. Mothers of Polio survivors are unsung heroes.

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“It is not a tragedy to me that I'm living in a wheelchair.” Judy Heumann

Serving my country . . . and paying it forward. By Donald P. Abrams

Wayne Nichols, Jr. - Serving with Honor

These Philadelphia-area polio survivors continue to suffer from a disease thought to be long gone.

Can’t change bygone days.

But we can dream of what could have been.

Things happen for a reason.

That’s what they seem to say.

Alan was the first actor to portray the role of FDR while personally having the same disability.

For fear of exposure to the virus, the ambulance would not take Arlene and another little girl to the hospital: they were taken to the hospital in a hearse.

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.

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"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.”