How Polio and Other Struggles Shaped the Life of Former CBC Producer Peter Kavanagh
Peter Kavanagh is recalling a time four decades past. Stricken with paralytic poliomyelitis during the epidemic of 1953, he has lived a physical life of what he calls “really bad odds”
Fighting For My Life
I grew up proud to be a polio survivor, blissfully unaware of the stigma many people attach to paralysis and deformity.
PPS - The Australian Experience - Physiotherapy (Video)
Physiotherapy - The Australian Experience (Video)
Polio Survivor And Doctor Chooses New Path. An Interview with Lauro Halstead, MD
“I think an important element for any young person is the whole concept of resilience and perseverance. I mean, no one’s life is free of problems, of challenges, of confrontations.” Lauro Halstead
What Polio Survivors Want Their Health Care Providers to Know (Video)
Polio Survivors from Eastern Idaho, Northern Colorado, Western Nebraska and Wyoming were supported by Rotary District 5440 to explain what they want their health care providers to understand about the Late Effects of Polio.