A Nearly Normal Life Timeline by Abdul

By ababiker

  • Mee got polio

    14 years old boy got polio

  • He got test (spinal fluid from his back)3 Aug 1953

    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 polio17 Aug 1953

    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 body27 Aug 1953

    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 fall29 Sep 1953

    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 fall29 Sep 1953

    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

    Carles went back home from hospital
    6 Nov 1953

  • Charles felt he was sepeated from others

    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 himself11 Nov 1953

    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 up24 Dec 1953

    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