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Raw Water - Please Don't!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 726562" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I'm a bit older than you, Annie, and I remember a lot of older polio victims from my childhood: people's parent's, teaqchers, etc. It just wasn't that common.</p><p></p><p>I also remember people in iron lungs, etc. My last exposure to it was a woman to whom I sold a Maine Coon kitten to for show. She used a wheelchair and/or walked with a leg brace, due to polio as a child. She wound up returning the cat to me years later due to her having developed post-polio syndrome, which rendered her bedridden and weakened her respiratory muscles. She died of pneumonia a couple of years ago.</p><p></p><p>Despite our having been vaccinated, my parents always used to try to find an area at the beaches away from other people/kids. They believed in the efficacy of the vaccines, but the fear had been so drummed into them as children and teens that it was hard for them to get past it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 726562, member: 1963"] I'm a bit older than you, Annie, and I remember a lot of older polio victims from my childhood: people's parent's, teaqchers, etc. It just wasn't that common. I also remember people in iron lungs, etc. My last exposure to it was a woman to whom I sold a Maine Coon kitten to for show. She used a wheelchair and/or walked with a leg brace, due to polio as a child. She wound up returning the cat to me years later due to her having developed post-polio syndrome, which rendered her bedridden and weakened her respiratory muscles. She died of pneumonia a couple of years ago. Despite our having been vaccinated, my parents always used to try to find an area at the beaches away from other people/kids. They believed in the efficacy of the vaccines, but the fear had been so drummed into them as children and teens that it was hard for them to get past it. [/QUOTE]
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