My late wife was a quadriplegic for almost 40 years. When she first was
paralyzed, I was amazed at all the people who mentioned that they had had
polio early in their lives. In most cases, you would not notice unless you
knew. One leg might be thinner or one arm a little weak but all had some
residual problems. That terrible disease affected many lives. /jmac
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Walt Wayman
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 6:14 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Cell-phones and driving on roads OT
Okay, Earl:
Offends you why?
At the age of 11, in 1952, I had what we called back in the dark ages
"infantile paralysis," some three or four years before Dr. Salk came up with
the vaccine. I wore braces for two years, then, like Forrest Gump, was too
damn dumb to know I was crippled and even managed to wrangle an athletic
scholarship (baseball), not to some podunk junior college, but to an NCAA
Division 1 school, the University of Tennessee. I didn't play much, but
what the hell.
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