How A House Sale Sign Helped Me Play Golf

I was stricken with infantile paralysis (polio) at the age of two and had my last tendon stretching operation at about eleven, after that I tried to forget about it and get on with my life.

About five years ago I started to collapse forward and realized that the time had arrived when I needed some support in walking. I first paid for a brace to be made for me but it was not successful, so decided to have a go at making one myself. This, of course was all new to me so it was a matter of starting from scratch.

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Autumn Newsletter 2018

Inside this edition:

  • Remembering Australia’s polio scourge

  • Polio virus discovered at Melbourne sewerage plant (By Aisha Daw - The Age)

  • Life skills for polios—a light-hearted hand book

  • Walk with me 2017 photos

  • Polio humour

  • Polio health and wellness retreat (Expression of interest)


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Remembering Australia’s Polio scourge – by Professor Joan McMeeken, University of Melbourne

The movie Breathe reminds us of the days when polio indiscriminately cut down the fit and healthy, so what was it like in Australia for those who contracted the disease?

Houses were fumigated, people quarantined, and entire families ostracised. Desperately worried parents resorted to hanging pungent camphor around their children’s necks in a misguided effort to ward off the virus and some fled to the mountains to escape.

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