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14 years old boy got polio
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He got test (spinal fluid from his back)3 Aug 1953
p. 15Doctors 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
17 Aug 1953 p.17In 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 lost his sensors of body
27 Aug 1953 p. 20I've lost all sense of myslef, all sens of arms and legs and torso. all sense of fingers. -
Mrs.Jones and assistants taught charles how to fall
29 Sep 1953 p.102Mrs.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 and assistants taught charles how to fall
29 Sep 1953 p.102Mrs.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 -
Carles went back home from hospital
6 Nov 1953 -
Charles felt he was sepeated from others
8 Nov 1953 p. 119Charles felt that he lost something.He felt that he was seperated him from his friends. -
Charles could wear clothes by himself
11 Nov 1953 p. 123He could wear clothes by himseslf and sat the edge of the bed -
He could stand up
24 Dec 1953 p. 124I was able to keep my knee the leg straight when I stood up, and leave it ti the crutches to bear my weight