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Name Life Comments Alan Alda: born 1936: Actor who played Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.Alda contracted polio at age seven, during an epidemic. His parents administered a painful treatment, developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, in which hot woollen blankets were applied to the limbs and the muscles were stretched by massage.
Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...
Shirley: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has the worst polio and likes marshmallows. She dies from Polio five years after the events of the book. Alice: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has been there for ten years. Her parents didn't want to take care of her because she was so badly crippled, and she became a ward of the state. She dies from cancer ...
The lecture hall is full. The medical director of the institute introduces her. The news broadcast of the committee report is piped in. It is devastating. Furious, the director points to the real results. The lecture continues. At the end, a crowd of children gather outside the Institute, singing “Happy Birthday” to Sister Kenny.
Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed ...
The "Megalopolis" director contracted polio around the age of 9 and was left bedridden and paralyzed for a portion of his childhood."I remember that night. I was feverish and they took me to a ...
Leela and Arvind are about to go to United States as Dimple is pregnant. Praveen's children are all grown up and pursuing their careers. Harshad and Shilpa open a maternity home in Godavari's name. Meenakshi is expecting her third child. Gudiya has had twin daughters. A breakthrough in polio treatment has helped Baby to recover from her polio.
Tiny Tim is believed to have had either rickets, tuberculosis (TB), polio, and/or cerebral palsy. [26] [27] 1978 Walter Walter: David Cook: He has learning and communication disabilities. [28] [29] 1937 Lennie Small Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck: He is a migrant worker with learning and communication disabilities. He relies on his best friend ...