[alexander_busek]

My second-oldest brother received the Salk vaccine - and then developed polio (leg braces, and all).

Now, 60 years later, he still walks with a limp, and one leg is shorter than the other.

Regards,

[mass55th]

I grew up in Rochester, New York in the 50’s. Never knew anyone who contracted polio, but we did get the polio vaccines. Back then they were a series of three shots. I’ve never minded shots, but the polio vaccines were the worst I’ve ever had. Within a couple of hours, your arm would start aching terribly, and you could barely lift it. I can’t remember how long the side-effect lasted though.

[Capt. Tom]

My second-oldest brother received the Salk vaccine - and then developed polio (leg braces, and all). Now, 60 years later, he still walks with a limp, and one leg is shorter than the other.

I was stricken with polio in the 1940s. It crippled me by shortening , shrinking , and bowing, my right leg and twisting my right foot so I had trouble walking but would have my right foot hook he back calf of my left leg and cause me to fall. My Grandmother and Mother both rejected the advice of braces and the "Thomas Shoe' for me by our health authorities, and went with the advice of a famous Australian Nurse, and worked on my right leg by pushing pulling and making me ride a scooter with my polio leg doing all the work.

It took about 8 years for me to be normal. My muscular right leg was lengthened mostly by the Tibia bone.-Tom