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Date Posted: 05:19:50 02/26/07 Mon
Author: Jo
Subject: Re: Children of Polio survivors

from "cindy larsen"
"Any answer on children of polio victims having
disorders? I am 29 years old and have always been
puny. I currently have muscle weakness and postural
tremors in my hands and sometimes my neck. Any ideas?

I am having lumbar bone spurs and sciatic nerve pain.
My mother is a polio survivor who had been diagnosed
with the same problem."

Hi, Cindy!
I'm so hoping that someone from the medical community will have the answers, too!
I know a man who is also the sole child of a polio surviving mother.
He's now of middle-age, and has always been very
thin, as well.
A few decades ago, he was refused a job, due to a
dark spot showing-up on his vertebra, during his exam
x-ray.
He'd attributed it to some prior accident, however minor...yet, he'd not experienced any pain,
or adverse effects, throughout.
However, now...within the past two years, he's gone through
one back sugery, and is being scheduled for another --
this the result of yet more x-rays, and a subsequent
biopsy of some yet "unidentified infection"...which has taken up residency, around his spine!
And, even though the term has yet to be used by his doctors --
this "infection" still defies a string of antibiotics they've administered to him, and so...would be a
MRSA, in my non-medical opinion.
Now, since their drugs aren't touching it...
they've scheduled another surgical "scraping" --
their primary goal being to "identify" the bug...
now considered to be "viral."
My thought is this -- if they couldn't identify the
invading bug from the first biopsy, what makes them think they can, this time?
The only difference now, is that it's spreading!
They say it's definitely not a malignant cancer,
yet, it certainly is acting as such!
So, is there a possible "polio" connection?
His doctors won't even consider that possibility.
So, I ask -- how scientific is that???

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Re: Children of Polio survivors -- Dianna, 15:37:50 08/27/07 Mon