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Charles got Polio (cubation period)
1953 summer, 14 years old.
in Boulder or somewhere along the road Colorado or Boulder -
He had certain symptoms
p,10 ~ 14
he had certain symtoms at summer dance party -
He was diagnosed with polio
p.13 at hospital -
Charles went to the isolation ward
p. 14
by redheded woman, Mrs Fuller,
Illinois,
- he felt deep, deep fear / he felt awesome terror -
He got test (spinal fluid from his back)
p. 15
Doctors needed to take a sample of spinal fluid from his back to make sure of his diagnosis.
He was so afraid but it was not much pain from the needle. there was only fear -
he was fighting against polio
p.17
In the next two weeks, tin the summer heat, delirious from fever, I went from a healthy athletic boy weighing 160 pounds to a frightened child of 90 pounds -
He was suffering extreme pain
p.17 as the neurons in my body died one by one during those two weeks, I felt relentless pain, like the pain of a tooth being drilled without novocaine -
He felt much better
p. 18 when the fever subsided from time to time and I rose to some state near consciousness. I could his eyes but not head -
He lost his sensors of body
p. 20 I've lost all sense of myslef, all sens of arms and legs and torso. all sense of fingers. -
Priest came to pray for him
p.21
Priest came to pray for him, but he was upset -
private nurse was hired by parents
private nurse was hired by parents but he asked his father to fire her -
His symptoms subsided
p.27 a nurse allowed to open the window, I could feel a breeze, he could hear mom voice, boys sound who did football game. -
He could hold a camera
p. 35
he could hold a camera, so he could take pictures -
Mrs. Johns helped him
p.68 -69
Mrs. Jones helped him so that he could move his body
Hot Blanket Treatment -
Charles moved his head and right fingers
p. 69
He could move his head, so he could see his room
also he could move his right fingers like left fingers -
He left isolation ward
p. 28
after he got better, he moved to children's ward but he had own his room
also he heard a lot of stroy about polio -
Charles coud turn over in bed by hinmself
p.70
He could turn over in bed by himself after two weeks with Mrs. Jones -
sitting up in bed
p. 70
He could sit up in bed supported by a half-dozen pillows -
He could sit up in wheelchairs
p. 70 -
Charkes praiced in the pysical therapy department
p. 70
I nthe physical therapy departement, lifting weights with his arms, building strengt in his arms and shoulders -
Charles could sit up in the chair
p.72 -
Charles practiced for waking
p. 97 Horizontal bars -
Charles got first step
p. 99
after three months five days from the isolation ward. -
charles practiced with parllel bars
p. 99 -
Charles scuttled his way
p. 100
He was able to scuttle his way crablike on his own down the smooth, polished floors of the corridor outside the therapy room -
He could walk with devices
p. 102
Just three weeks of practice, I was able, with my brace and my crutches, to walk the full length of the hospital corridor outside the physical therapy department -
Mrs.Jones and assistants taught charles how to fall
p.102
Mrs.Jones and her strong-armed bys, having taught me how to walk, coached me on how to fall, how to twist to te side as I was going down so that I could catch myself with the strength of an arm and roll with the fall -
Mrs.Jones thought charles could visit home
p. 105 -
Charles got in the car by himself
p. 105 -
Charles spent a week at home
p. 107
He realized how much nature such as sun, leaves is thankful for him -
Charles abandoned wheelchairs
p.116 -
He practiced to walk
p. 117 -
Charles dad wad dead
p. 111 -
Mrs.Jones told him that he could go home
p. 117 -
Carles went back home from hospital
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Charles felt he was sepeated from others
p. 119
Charles felt that he lost something.
He felt that he was seperated him from his friends. -
Charles could wear clothes by himself
p. 123
He could wear clothes by himseslf and sat the edge of the bed -
He could stand up
p. 124
I was able to keep my knee the leg straight when I stood up, and leave it ti the crutches to bear my weight -
Charles returned to shcool electricnically
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Charles started to go back to school every day
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In high school, he rebuild his muscles
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his right leg was strong enough to press both the accelator
his right leg was strong enough to press both the accelator and brake in a car. He got driver's license -
His one hand free
p.172
I learned to walk with one Canadian crutch in my right hand and a wooden cane in my left, and this was the handiest of all. I could hook the cane in my back pocket when I need to, so that I have one hand free to shake hands or hold a drink at a cocktail party -
Charles go surgery by Dr.Blount
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He started to wirte instead of football