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Date Posted: 15:19:52 09/12/02 Thu
Author: June Zeyen
Subject: bulbar polio - post polio relapse years later

Had polio in l948...had traech, was in the iron lung, etc. which left me with no voice, could not cough (or laugh) and had trouble drinking water, let alone eating. After about three years and working very hard to recover, with almost no help, I was able to speak softly, and eat and drink if I watched what and how I swallowed. Every cold and respiratory infection was major and I was in and out of the hospital numerous times. The Sister Kenney nurse and come to Ventura the month after I left the hospital the first time but we never made contact for about five years. At that time I had a throat infection and the doctor(my throat specialists partner gave me nembutal instead of an antibiotic .I went into pneumonia and had to have the second traech. I was told a time that if I had to have another traech it would be permanent, because of the scar tissue, etc. I managed to have any surgeries that were necessary using a local until l997 when I had surgery for breast cancer. At that time I seemed to be doing okay and suddenly my respiratory system started to fail and another traech was inserted (permanently). I had started to show respiratory weakness about two or three years prior to that. Looking back, I realize now that I wasn't getting enough oxygen. The traech has been in almost seven years now and although I am getting along okay, I realize that I am lucky that I didn't have to have this done when I was younger....it would have been difficult and very hard to live a normal life, and for that I am most grateful. Has anyone eveer come up with what causes polio. The onlly public place I had been for weeks before I came down with it was the Ventura Fair. My immediate family was not quarantined, two of the family were, but they hadn't been around me. Evidently, they didn't feel it was contageous that way...since I couldn't talk for months there were a lot of questions I could never ask.

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Re: bulbar polio - post polio relapse years later -- Delene, 21:27:36 06/25/04 Fri
Re: bulbar polio - post polio relapse years later -- Delene, 21:31:37 06/25/04 Fri