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1953 summer, 14 years old.
in Boulder or somewhere along the road Colorado or Boulder -
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he had certain symtoms at summer dance party -
p.13 at hospital
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by redheded woman, Mrs Fuller,
Illinois,
- he felt deep, deep fear / he felt awesome terror -
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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 -
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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 -
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
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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
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p. 20 I've lost all sense of myslef, all sens of arms and legs and torso. all sense of fingers.
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Priest came to pray for him, but he was upset -
private nurse was hired by parents but he asked his father to fire her
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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.
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he could hold a camera, so he could take pictures -
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Mrs. Jones helped him so that he could move his body
Hot Blanket Treatment -
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He could move his head, so he could see his room
also he could move his right fingers like left fingers -
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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 -
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He could turn over in bed by himself after two weeks with Mrs. Jones -
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He could sit up in bed supported by a half-dozen pillows -
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I nthe physical therapy departement, lifting weights with his arms, building strengt in his arms and shoulders -
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p. 97 Horizontal bars
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after three months five days from the isolation ward. -
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He was able to scuttle his way crablike on his own down the smooth, polished floors of the corridor outside the therapy room -
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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 -
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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 -
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He realized how much nature such as sun, leaves is thankful for him -
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Charles felt that he lost something.
He felt that he was seperated him from his friends. -
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He could wear clothes by himseslf and sat the edge of the bed -
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I was able to keep my knee the leg straight when I stood up, and leave it ti the crutches to bear my weight -
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his right leg was strong enough to press both the accelator and brake in a car. He got driver's license
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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 -
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