“After my boys got sick, I lost all my reasons for going on. It’s like I was the one that couldn’t move. I didn’t have any money to pay the doctor’s bills and I didn’t have any way of making everything all right.”
“There aren’t enough words in this world to explain what it was like looking through the window of that isolation ward and seeing my kids hooked up to chest respirators with hot wax packs on their legs.”
“Walking out of that hospital, I knew things weren’t going to get better. And from that day forward, it all just went to hell–the crops died in the field, the bills didn’t get paid, and my wife and two boys lost their future.”
In 1952, more than 57,000 children were paralyzed by polio. Without a known cure, parents lived in perpetual fear for the health and well-being of their children. When polio did strike, countless families were rendered helpless in a tragedy of epic magnitude.
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