Post-Polio Syndrome - What is it? How do you treat it? What does it feel like? Some answers from Marny K. Eulberg, MD (Video)

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. . .

Have you ever wondered? And really closed your eyes, If only for a moment, And thought of special times.

As polio survivors we understand. Spinal taps, visits only through a window and no touch between a child an their parent.

“Parents of children today don’t have any idea of the fear that took ovr the country in the summers of the 1940’s and 50’s.” Joe Randig for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

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.