As a polio survivor, I am grateful to Edmund Sass for the comprehensive coverage of people whose lives were forever changed by this disease. I read it hoping to get some elucidation about some recent problems I have that I think may be caused by post-polio. I am so fortunate to have lived a life relatively free of polio residuals after having had both bulbar and spinal polio. I am grateful to my parents for their unrelenting belief in exercising limbs that would have atrophied without their help. They did exercises with me and hired a physical therapist who was aware of Sister Kenny's methods to live with us and work with me every day. They never gave up, so I never did either. I find that much of my life has been lived the same way - I will never give up when I have made a commitment to do something, and have often exhausted my physical resources by being this way. I remember being in an iron lung, having to have a tracheotomy, the spinal tap, isolation, rocking beds, crutches, leg braces and then realizing the ultimate goal of walking again. I hated not being able to run like my classmates, but my parents unfailingly pointed out that many of the children in my polio ward would never ever be able to walk again and I should always be grateful for all the people who brought me back from the very brink of death. I acknowledge being an A+ personality type and the onset of my present disabilities is particularly difficult to accept after having gone "through the fire" once. I still think often of the children in my ward who died from complications of polio and I would like to think that I fought so hard to be whole for them, too. Thank you, Edmund Sass, for a worthwhile book. I am now going to pursue more information and perhaps treatment for post-polio symptoms.
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