I Spent a Year of My Childhood in the Hospital with Polio. I Still Cry About It.

Voices For Vaccines · Oct 26, 2026

by Don Schellberg There were about 50 kids in my hospital ward. Rows of metal cribs. I was three years old, and I would be there for a year. My parents and siblings could visit on Sundays, for about two hours. It was 1954. I had polio. Prior to the vaccine, polio epidemics were dreaded, periodic events that struck rich and poor alike. Franklin Roosevelt, the only four-term…

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