Left: Laura Nell Obaugh and Felix Oppenheim Wedgewood in England
Right: Ed Roberts and son
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“Polios have a certain advantage over the able-bodied
when it comes to aging…. We do not confuse the quality of our
life with the quality of our tennis game. We know that happiness is
not dependent upon activity nor is meaningful defined by trophies.
A meaningful life may be hampered—but need not be defined—by
pain or disability.”
—Hugh G. Gallagher, 1998
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Young people who experienced post-polio syndrome
Left: Jim Morse with his short wave radio equipment
Right: From Rehabilitation Gazette, mother with kids at playground
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“While polio is a physical experience, it is also a social
one…. Polio does not belong just to those of us who were infected
by it, but to our mothers and fathers, our sisters and brothers, our
partners and our children; to those who cared for us, to those who
brutalized us (often not mutually exclusive categories); to those who
saw us as palimpsests [tablets] on which to write their fear, their
pity, their admiration, their empathy, their discomfort.”
—Anne Finger, 2004
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Joy with her family, Christmas
Left: Dick and Barbara Eckhardt’s wedding
Right: John Britt’s wedding
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Photographs courtesy of Post-Polio Health International, Dan and Carol
Wilson, Yoshiko Dart, Lorenzo Milam, Laura Nell Obaugh and Felix Oppenheim-Wedgewood,
Joy Weeber and Ron Mace, Laura Kreiss and Ben Minowitz, Marc Shell, John
Britt, Jack Warner, Richard J. Castiello, Dick and Barbara Eckhardt,
Jean-Marc Giboux, and Rotary International |
