TRAVELING TO NIGERIA TO FIGHT POLIO - Ann Lee Hussey
Posted by Gordon Hankin
on Dec 10, 2012
Editors Note. The writer of this blog will be a guest speaker at the 2013 District Convention in Halifax in May.
As a 17-month-old toddler, I contracted polio. Burning up with fever, I was paralyzed from the waist down. It was July 1955, only 3 months after Jonas Salk's vaccine was released to the public. I was lucky to regain the use of most but not all of my leg muscles. Today, after multiple surgeries, braces, and physical therapy, I am able to walk with limitations.