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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 →

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 →

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 →

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  • Embraced by it long before understanding of anything around 23 October 2020
  • Walk This Way 22 October 2020
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  • Believe in Yourself 7 October 2020
  • “Change of life” – at 20 months! 30 September 2020

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