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My First Pandemic

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  Monday 16 November 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Anonymous Our last Polio pandemic was from the mid-1930s to 1956. Anyone here in Quorn born much earlier than 1956 will remember it, probably vividly. The US bacteriologist, Jonas Salk, … Continue reading →

The shape of life: polio, disease and my mum

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  Friday 30 October 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am someone's son, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Matt Gibbs My mother, Margaret Gibbs, is seventy years old and doesn’t look a day over sixty-nine. Aside from a pronounced limp on her left side, caused by polio, Mum … Continue reading →

Embraced by it long before understanding of anything around

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  Friday 23 October 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Sajid Hossain Yes, I’ve survived! Thanks to the Almighty for such caring parents, grandparents and uncles who did everything within their reach to help me. I was mischievous but not … Continue reading →

Walk This Way

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  Thursday 22 October 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Suzanne Brigham Contracting polio at 13 months of age (66 years ago) had more of an impact for my family in the first 16 years than me. I knew nothing … Continue reading →

Vaccines and Viruses: A History of Pandemics

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  Wednesday 14 October 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: Media Coverage, Memories

COVID-19 seems like a contagious virus without parallel, but Australia has been hit by devastating pandemics before. The Spanish flu killed 15,000 Australians in 1919, smallpox decimated the Aboriginal population, HIV/AIDS … Continue reading →

Believe in Yourself

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  Wednesday 7 October 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Maureen Maloney I am starting my story from March 2020 when the Corona virus Pandemic began. Isolation, not seeing loved ones, fear and of the unknown and death all seemed … Continue reading →

“Change of life” – at 20 months!

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  Wednesday 30 September 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Jen Pretty (Rev.) I have no memory of this place, although I lived here for 6 weeks many years ago, when I was only twenty months old. I have invited … Continue reading →

The after

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  Saturday 26 September 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Colin Ogilvie Just a few words that express my problems seventy years after. Quite often, roughly monthly, severe aches (pain) occurs in various sections of the body which have been … Continue reading →

Beware of operations

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  Sunday 13 September 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Jessie McKay I contracted polio when I was 3 but didn’t get the symptoms of post polio until I was well into my 60’s I am writing this to make … Continue reading →

Poetry and other things

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  Saturday 12 September 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

By Bob Cowley I was a happy and popular toddler. Then, just after my third birthday, I got polio. I had it for eighteen months – confined to bed, hours of … Continue reading →

Polio Schmolio

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  Wednesday 29 January 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

Thankfully at age 16 the doctor declared that nothing further could be done and I put the very unpleasant experience to the furtherest place in my mind. I studied visual arts … Continue reading →

“I saw the birth of the Paralympics games – but they were not called that then.”

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  Thursday 9 January 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor

By Sheila King In about 1946/7 I was a patient at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Nearly all patients in the ward I was in were there for the long term. The … Continue reading →

Neena Bhandari on SBS Hindi

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  Friday 3 January 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Media Coverage, Polio Survivors' Stories

Polio survivor, Neena Bhandari spoke in two interviews on SBS Hindi, to help outreach to polio survivors from CALD backgrounds (all interviews are in Hindi).

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My Dad is a Polio Survivor

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  Friday 3 January 2020 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am someone's daughter, Polio Survivors' Stories

My dad contracted polio in 1954 when he was 2 years old he was hospitalised and put in a cast, he has had polio ever since and even now at the age of 67 he has PPS (late effects of of polio) and I’m proud to say he is a post polio survivor.

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Pandemic; Margaret’s Experience | Short Film

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  Wednesday 30 October 2019 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Polio Survivors' Stories

Margaret is a polio survivor, currently living in NSW. The following video was completed by a student for his HSC Visual Arts major work: Margaret has been kind enough to share … Continue reading →

Gary Newton speaks at Horsham Rotary Clubs

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  Friday 25 October 2019 by Gary Newton
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Rotary

Polio survivor and Polio Australia Board Member, Gary Newton, spoke at a Rotary event in Horsham. There was almost 70 attendees, and Gary spoke to the auidance about Rotary, Living with … Continue reading →

“Polio’s lasting effects” – The Daily Advertiser

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  Friday 4 October 2019 by Rachel Ingram
  Category: Media Coverage

  This article was published by The Daily Advertiser

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“Paralympic swimmer Elizabeth Edmondson’s 1964 Tokyo Games record still stands 55 years on” – ABC News

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  Monday 2 September 2019 by Rachel Ingram
  Category: I am a polio survivor, Media Coverage

The following article is from ABC News: At just 14, Elizabeth Edmondson became the youngest Australian to claim an individual gold medal for swimming at either an Olympics or Paralympics. It … Continue reading →

“My New Leg”

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  Thursday 25 July 2019 by Polio Australia
  Category: I am a polio survivor

A personal story by Jan, a polio survivor living in Queensland. “I feel in general, many polio survivors tend to have the attitude that if something works for you, don’t change … Continue reading →

Sue Mackenzie’s recent Rotary talks

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  Wednesday 3 July 2019 by Sue Mackenzie
  Category: Rotary

I did a presentation to Nambour Rotary Club in Queensland in June 2019. We were very fortunate to receive a $1,000 donation from Rotary Club Nambour as a result, for Polio … Continue reading →

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