[HighSierra5]

Jeez. If anyone needs a prayer, it’s this guy. Lord help him. Amen.

[Jonty30]

Good for him. I wouldn’t upgrade from something that is working to something supposedly better and have something go wrong.

[Libloather]

[ken in texas]

Wow, I can't imagine being confined for that long.

Used to work with a fellow that had polio as a child. He was paralyzed in his upper body, but could move his legs a bit, and managed to type on a keyboard fairly well with his feet. He spent his days in a motorized wheelchair complete with a breathing machine, while at night he slept in an iron lung.

[cva66snipe]

The 1952 cases were likely much higher an was about the time my late wife likely caught it and went undetected until 1985 when she became a sudden incomplete quadriplegic. When the physical therapist measured her limbs they said the abnormalities were consistent with Polio. She would have been 2 years old in 1952.

Many people including her had mild childhood cases that went undiagnosed only to have it come back in a non-contagious form even decades later & wreaking havoc on them.

[TheWriterTX]

My mom had polio as a child of 9. Spent a year in the hospital undergoing the Sister Kettering treatments.

No lasting side effects. She went on to marry, give birth to five children, and welcome all her grandchildren before passing at the age of 76.

I don’t know if I could survive that long in an iron lung. What an iron will!

[mikey_hates_everything]

As a kid, this is what I thought happened if you ever got out of an Iron Lung. Polio scared the crap out of me.

[Ciaphas Cain]

"Weird Al" Yankovic: "Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung"