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To: WaterDragon

I have an Uncle who walks with a cane to this day because of polio.


2 posted on 06/29/2006 10:39:45 AM PDT by Hydroshock ( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
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To: Hydroshock

My mother got polio during the epidemic of the 50's. She was 30. She died at 86. The result was that it atrophied her left arm and hand. She seemed to be otherwise unaffected. In her mid-70's she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I wonder if it wasn't actually PPS.


3 posted on 06/29/2006 10:52:20 AM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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