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In My Dreams – Lynette Rutherford

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 5 October 2022 by Polio Australia5 October 2022

By Lynette Rutherford (Infantile paralysis experienced at age 4 – Left arm paralysed and weak side) In My Dreams I still dream I am serving in tennis, Am marching, with baton … Continue reading →

Polly – My Polio Story

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 28 September 2022 by Polio Australia28 September 2022

By Pauline (Polly) Corrigan My family arrived in Sydney Australia 17th June 1951. After a short time at a migrant camp we moved to a furnished house with an engineering job … Continue reading →

If only…

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 5 October 2021 by Polio Australia5 October 2021

By Rosalie Cogger-Collins If only the Polio Vaccine had been available in the early 1950’s my sister Gloria and I would not have suffered from having Polio and be now suffering … Continue reading →

My First Pandemic

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 16 November 2020 by Polio Australia16 November 2020

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

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 30 October 2020 by Polio Australia30 October 2020

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

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 23 October 2020 by Polio Australia24 October 2020

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

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 22 October 2020 by Polio Australia24 October 2020

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

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 14 October 2020 by Polio Australia15 October 2020

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

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 7 October 2020 by Polio Australia7 October 2020

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!

Polio Australia - We're Still Here Posted on 30 September 2020 by Polio Australia2 October 2020

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 →

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