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>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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