03003cam a2200433 4500 525623542 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780870205873 0870205870 B00BY074L8 Amazon 0ceb164a-ad8e-4db3-8d4d-552413e9497d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1263618 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Apps, Jerry. Limping through Life [Libby eBook] : A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6056kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. twentieth century farm. Rural history. Agriculture. farm family. Great Depr. Jerry Apps. memoir. polio. farm. HTML:<p><b>Limping through Life</b></p> <p><b>A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir</b></p> <p>Jerry Apps</p> <p>"Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same."</p> <p>—from the Introduction</p> <p>Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Sauk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin's Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personal book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer.</p> <p>A hardworking farm kid who loved playing softball, young Jerry Apps would have to make many adjustments and meet many challenges after that winter night he was stricken with a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness. In Limping through Life he explores the ways his world changed after polio and pays tribute to those family members, teachers, and friends who helped him along the way.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Medical. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/limping-through-life?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/limping-through-life?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/limping-through-life?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)