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- > Sad to say, it's possible. Way back when, almost everybody got the
- > respiratory infection that polio usually causes. But most didn't get
- > anything more than that from it -- it got into the CNS and destroyed
- > motor neurons in the unlucky few.
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- The only problem David seemed to get from it was a leg 2 inches shorter than
- the other, but by the time he had gone through puberty, through daily exercises
- and the enormous amount of swimming the two of us had done together over the
- years, his limp had entirely disappeared.
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- I don't think my mother would have noticed anything peculiar about me having
- a respiratory infection... so I guess I was one of the lucky ones.
-
- Carolyn
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