Living With Polio
Life Stories
PHI has assembled a collection of polio survivors’ life stories below. Click on the title to view each story. If you would like to submit your own, please send a Word doc and any relevant photos to info@post-polio.org.
Uniquely Strong
Sel Alonde
A Story from Sri Lanka
Senarath Attanayake
A Window into America’s Paralytic Plague
Maurice Becker
What Having a Disability Taught Me
Ida Curtis
My Personal Story
Dr. Raju Dhakal
My Polio Letter
Astrid Gorvett
Remembering James Murdoch
BJ Grieve
PPS Medical Insights, Evaluations and a Plan of Action That for Me, Have Stood the Test of Time
Sandra Hughes Grinnell
This Is My Story
Debbie Hardy
Polio
Sharon Jarrett
Erinnerunge an den Beginn und Verlauf meiner Krankengeschichte in Bezug auf Polio (Kinderlähmung)
Barbara Kühl
The Victories and Challenges Related to Post-Polio Syndrome
Mark Mallinger
Testimony of a Polio Survivor in México
Esther Liliana Marasco Garrido
Polio Survivors Stories
Sandhills Post Polio Health Group
This booklet, compiled in 2006, contains the personal accounts of 22 individuals who were members of the Sandhills Post Polio Health Group in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
A View From the 89th Floor
Ray Taylor
A Global Career in Universal Design Shaped by Childhood Experiences
Edmund A. Weaver, Jr.
From Polio Patient to Polio Voice
Daniel J. Wilson