[Fred K OR]

I had first hand experience with polio. In the early 1950's I was in college at the time. The Salk vaccine just came out. You could take it with a sugar cube. I took it. A couple of weeks later, I was doing pushups in PE and I could not get my butt off the floor. Later I tried to run up a stairs and fell flat on my face. All my muscles were gone. But I could still walk so I stayed in school. I lost 40 lbs or so. Had to stop PE. I was lucky in that within a few months I was able to start to gain back my muscles. But it took at least a year to gain back all of them.
The Doctor I went to just said it was a virus. Did not blame the vaccine-he may have been correct but it did give me an idea of what polio was all about.