[wardaddy]

I’m with you but we’ll be hollered down

Does anyone remember polio and iron lungs....I do

I’m riding with vaccines

[marron]

My dad had polio and spent a year or so in a sanitarium. He remembers that some of his room-mates didn’t make it. It was an experience that he didn’t talk about until old age, but that definitely marked him.

Polio vaccine was definitely a Godsend.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Does anyone remember polio and iron lungs....I do***

I remember those days! Often I wish some of the anti-vaxers could be put in a time machine and returned to the wonderful world of Polio, Diphtheria, whooping cough, cholera, yellow fever, SMALLPOX, tetanus, RABIES, MEASLES, more measles, and assorted other nasties! Why do they think the old timers had so many children! Most would never make it to adulthood and the old cemeteries prove this.

Even a farmer has enough sense to vaccinate his cattle against Blackleg, anthrax and edema and other nasties!

I still remember a kid my age who were so crippled from Polio they wore braces and walked with two canes. When our school had a fire drill two large boys were given the job of carrying him out of the building!

[Cloverfarm]

Polio and iron lungs ... and kids wearing leg braces ...

yup, I remember.

My husband’s grandmother survived polio as a child but then it returned as progressive weakness in old age. It was like her system was worn out from compensating all those years.

One of my great aunts died of diptheria.

I remember having the mumps as a toddler. It was one of the most painful things I ever experienced. Hubs was sick for a couple of weeks when he got chicken pox.

We would not wish those illnesses on anybody. And they are avoidable.