My mother got polio in 1952 in Los Angeles, I was two years seven months old then. She was an Iron Lung patient at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey California. My grandmother would take us to vist her on sundays. She was paralised from the neck down for the rest of her life. She died in 1972 after 20 years of being on a resprator. The Airforce transported her to Indinapolis in about 1954 via a medivac flight to be with her family as my father divorced her. My sister and I continued to live in California with my fathers family. We would vist her every summer for about a month and a half in Indiana. She was an incredible lady. Painted ties with a brush in her mouth while at Rancho. President "IKE" bought one of her ties. She also had a raido program on sundays for awhile in Indinapolis reading potery and playing clasical music. I belive it was a station at Buttler University.
I had polio when I was 6 months old. I’m 77 now and have pps .Have to use Walker and wheelchair .I have been married for 56 yrs we have 2 daughters and we have 6 grand children. So blessed..
I’m so glad you’re still here with us mam. My mom was given the sugar cube polio vaccine in her kindergarten class. I’m so glad. My parents had me quite late but I’m glad because I can understand and appreciate things my peers can’t.
@@cindirose3390 Post polio syndrome. It is when symptoms like paralysis return again when the person is older, when they were reasonably ok for decades. Post-polio syndrome (PPS) usually occurs 15-40 years after the infection and recovery. PPS is believed to be the result of a deterioration of nerve cells called motor neurons over many years that leads to loss of muscle strength and dysfunction. Polio and post-polio syndrome are caused by poliovirus. It's a creepy disease. Measles as well. It can result in a deadly form of brain degeneration known as Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis which manifests years later. Measles also damages the immune system for years, in a manner similar to hiv, only with measles the person usually recovers again.
At nine months I contracted polio in 1955..it damaged my lower right..I wore a brace and had therapy for years to strengthen my leg muscles..I was lucky that I didn't die.🙁
I was born in "52, i remember Mother heating my baby bottle in boiling water; no doubt she'd done the same for my brother born 4 years before. Her brother came down with polio in "47, spending 9 months in an iron lung. A Navy veteran of the Pacific war, he made a determined effort to rehabilitate with a relentless regimen of exercise, but still walked with a minor limp for years.
Do you know who Joni Mitchell is? If not, check out her music here on UA-cam. She had Polio at age 9, and even though she plays guitar, her fingers can only spread out just so much. She also talks about it during an interview about what it was like. I believe this is why she has such a good heart and a kindness for people who suffer. She also has such a way with words, as you can hear in her songs.
@@heatherstub Shes also a leftist and thus is complicit in the destruction of America. I know very well who she is and what she believes just like Cher, Madonna and Streisand, and lately Swift.
Yes..... Today we think that Coronavirus is the only bad thing... We should be thankful for all those scientists, doctors, nurses, care-givers, who work round the clock trying to help humankind.
This needs to be added to the UA-cam algorithm. People need to be reminded that we've responded to disease outbreaks in the past the way we are now with the coronavirus.
Yes and watch videos about how some thought that the polio vaccine was the cause of the Aids virus. It was never proven but it was not disproved either.
We just went the same exact thing with covid19 vaccines. Big pharma rushed to get a vaccine so they can be the ones to sell it. Again some people believe that the polio vaccine actually started another pandemic Aids and HIV. I personally believe it did after researching. They won't tell us that in schools. Polio vaccines came out and 20 years later we had a pandemic from AIDS. Hmmm. Why is cancer rampant but vaccines we are forced to give our children are never brought up in the conversation. Hmm
My wife was born in 1943, and got polio in her lower body the next year. She recovered, and was left with a thin right leg and a slight limp, plus in the thirties a one-inch raise on her right shoe. Everything was fine until 25 years ago when she lost energy and was deemed to have PPS. Five years later she got two canes to help her walk, and then further deterioration until in 2014 she needed a wheelchair. Two years later she could no longer stand. She passed away in 2020 from heart failure.
Me too! I was born in 1956. We were spared and we did not know the anxiety that our Mothers experience. Thank God for the vaccine angeles. I remember March of Dimes
I was born 1949, my brother 1948. I did not realize how much this was spreading at that time until I recently started reading about Polio, and it's history. I do remember the March of Dimes in school, and people talked about it, not much, but some. Luckily it missed us, and I didn't know anyone personally that got it.
Me too ... I thought it was 'routine' to get 2 polio shots in one's vaccine portfolio. I remember lining up for shots in grade school and kids crying (60's). No idea of what polio was until I saw this old film! (I did recall US Pres. FDR from history). A forgotten scourge now. Here we are in 2020 with a 100 yr. Pandemic wearing masks again, waiting for vaccines.
It was so contagious that places were closed temporarily. You would think there would be mask wearing with every patient and health care provider. The idea of keeping the projection of disease from the nose and mouth is so basic. And no gloves or sanitizers when handling patients. Was it too much of an inconvenience or were they worried that freedoms are taken away.
Polio is transmitted via fecal oral or oral oral routes. So masks are not as big of an issue compared to airborne or droplet transmission. Also they didn't know as much about infection as we do now
All of the past history of diseases, viruses, etc…, and films as this one that can still be seen to bring awareness of how important “Vacccines” are in this world,…just baffles my mind as to why there are still “Anti-Vacccine” people in today’s times. 💔
In order to go forward we must look at the past. Currently, COVID-19 pandemic is happening around the world. This too shall be an illness of the past, one day.
Covid is nothing but a stronger variant of the flu. Coronavirus causes both. By 1920, there were no further stories about the so called Spanish flu of 1918, which was at least as lethal as covid.
My mother got polio in 1952 in Los Angeles, I was two years seven months old then. She was an Iron Lung patient at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey California. My grandmother would take us to vist her on sundays. She was paralised from the neck down for the rest of her life. She died in 1972 after 20 years of being on a resprator. The Airforce transported her to Indinapolis in about 1954 via a medivac flight to be with her family as my father divorced her. My sister and I continued to live in California with my fathers family. We would vist her every summer for about a month and a half in Indiana. She was an incredible lady. Painted ties with a brush in her mouth while at Rancho. President "IKE" bought one of her ties. She also had a raido program on sundays for awhile in Indinapolis reading potery and playing clasical music. I belive it was a station at Buttler University.
Your mother was an extraordinary woman, you are lucky to have known her. Thanks for sharing her story.
I had polio when I was 6 months old. I’m 77 now and have pps .Have to use Walker and wheelchair .I have been married for 56 yrs we have 2 daughters and we have 6 grand children. So blessed..
I’m so glad you’re still here with us mam. My mom was given the sugar cube polio vaccine in her kindergarten class. I’m so glad. My parents had me quite late but I’m glad because I can understand and appreciate things my peers can’t.
Could you please explain about PPS?
@@cindirose3390 Post polio syndrome. It is when symptoms like paralysis return again when the person is older, when they were reasonably ok for decades.
Post-polio syndrome (PPS) usually occurs 15-40 years after the infection and recovery. PPS is believed to be the result of a deterioration of nerve cells called motor neurons over many years that leads to loss of muscle strength and dysfunction. Polio and post-polio syndrome are caused by poliovirus.
It's a creepy disease. Measles as well. It can result in a deadly form of brain degeneration known as Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis which manifests years later. Measles also damages the immune system for years, in a manner similar to hiv, only with measles the person usually recovers again.
At nine months I contracted polio in 1955..it damaged my lower right..I wore a brace and had therapy for years to strengthen my leg muscles..I was lucky that I didn't die.🙁
We're you living in los angeles?
I was born in "52, i remember Mother heating my baby bottle in boiling water; no doubt she'd done the same for my brother born 4 years before. Her brother came down with polio in "47, spending 9 months in an iron lung. A Navy veteran of the Pacific war, he made a determined effort to rehabilitate with a relentless regimen of exercise, but still walked with a minor limp for years.
Stop met liegen
@@trolldelphine2084 Why do you think he is lying?
Do you know who Joni Mitchell is? If not, check out her music here on UA-cam. She had Polio at age 9, and even though she plays guitar, her fingers can only spread out just so much. She also talks about it during an interview about what it was like. I believe this is why she has such a good heart and a kindness for people who suffer. She also has such a way with words, as you can hear in her songs.
@@heatherstub Shes also a leftist and thus is complicit in the destruction of America.
I know very well who she is and what she believes just like Cher, Madonna and Streisand, and lately Swift.
I got polio at the age of 2 years old, 1948,I am 74 years old. I now have pps, no fun. 😸
I came down with polio in 1955 @11 months. Now it’s effects are being felt with PPS
I got the chills watching this
Yes..... Today we think that Coronavirus is the only bad thing...
We should be thankful for all those scientists, doctors, nurses, care-givers, who work round the clock trying to help humankind.
This needs to be added to the UA-cam algorithm. People need to be reminded that we've responded to disease outbreaks in the past the way we are now with the coronavirus.
Agree, polio was terrifying. Spanish flu and small pox also...
@@andrewbellinger6120 And Covid 19, although less deadly, it's still dangerous
Yes and watch videos about how some thought that the polio vaccine was the cause of the Aids virus. It was never proven but it was not disproved either.
We just went the same exact thing with covid19 vaccines. Big pharma rushed to get a vaccine so they can be the ones to sell it. Again some people believe that the polio vaccine actually started another pandemic Aids and HIV. I personally believe it did after researching. They won't tell us that in schools. Polio vaccines came out and 20 years later we had a pandemic from AIDS. Hmmm. Why is cancer rampant but vaccines we are forced to give our children are never brought up in the conversation. Hmm
Cutter incident of 1955.
Shared. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing!!
My wife was born in 1943, and got polio in her lower body the next year. She recovered, and was left with a thin right leg and a slight limp, plus in the thirties a one-inch raise on her right shoe.
Everything was fine until 25 years ago when she lost energy and was deemed to have PPS. Five years later she got two canes to help her walk, and then further deterioration until in 2014 she needed a wheelchair. Two years later she could no longer stand.
She passed away in 2020 from heart failure.
Its polio. I got it it at eight years old .
I was born in 1957. My mother made sure that I had both the Salk and the Sabin vaccines.
Me too! I was born in 1956. We were spared and we did not know the anxiety that our Mothers experience. Thank God for the vaccine angeles. I remember March of Dimes
This breaks my heart..
I was born 1949, my brother 1948. I did not realize how much this was spreading at that time until I recently started reading about Polio, and it's history. I do remember the March of Dimes in school, and people talked about it, not much, but some. Luckily it missed us, and I didn't know anyone personally that got it.
Me too ... I thought it was 'routine' to get 2 polio shots in one's vaccine portfolio. I remember lining up for shots in grade school and kids crying (60's). No idea of what polio was until I saw this old film! (I did recall US Pres. FDR from history). A forgotten scourge now. Here we are in 2020 with a 100 yr. Pandemic wearing masks again, waiting for vaccines.
Remember my older sister taking about this she was 10 yrs old
My dad had it he was in los angeles hospital 1955
He was probably at Ranch Los Amigos in Downey...
Show this to the antivaccers.
Maybe you should research the Cutter incident and then lecture us on vaccines.
67 years later hear we go again.
It was so contagious that places were closed temporarily. You would think there would be mask wearing with every patient and health care provider. The idea of keeping the projection of disease from the nose and mouth is so basic. And no gloves or sanitizers when handling patients. Was it too much of an inconvenience or were they worried that freedoms are taken away.
Polio is transmitted via fecal oral or oral oral routes. So masks are not as big of an issue compared to airborne or droplet transmission. Also they didn't know as much about infection as we do now
Polio is both air bourne and transmissable via contaminated water.
Once you have polio, you don't need to be protected from catching it any more.
All of the past history of diseases, viruses, etc…, and films as this one that can still be seen to bring awareness of how important “Vacccines” are in this world,…just baffles my mind as to why there are still “Anti-Vacccine” people in today’s times. 💔
Because, back then, those were actual vaccines. The current stuff is completely different.
This is propaganda
And these days we cry about vaccinations that save lives
Hi
Is polio gone now
Sadly no, it's not. In developing countries it's still alive and kicking
It is currently thought to only exist in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Only if you had the required number of vaccines as a baby and young child.
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In order to go forward we must look at the past. Currently, COVID-19 pandemic is happening around the world. This too shall be an illness of the past, one day.
Covid is nothing but a stronger variant of the flu. Coronavirus causes both.
By 1920, there were no further stories about the so called Spanish flu of 1918, which was at least as lethal as covid.
Remember me ☠️
*BORAT 2020*
can you spell CDC..? how bout' milabs..? 😑
Vaccinate
@@marilynlynds3398 Lets not and say we did.
@@donreinke5863 Make America Great Again! Bring back Polio!