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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Polio survivor? This will change your life, 8 Feb 2003
If you had polio in the fifties, get someone who loves you to buy you this book. Scary thought? Asking someone for something? Admitting you're disabled? Acknowledging that someone might love you? Yeah, me too. And that's why we need Dr. Bruno's book.We polio people were well taught to deny, to apologise, to over-compensate, to rely on ourselves alone. And you know what, it's destroying us. Post polio syndrome (or sequelae as Bruno calls it) is here, it's nasty and it's not going away. And however hard to face up to, we need all the help we can get to cope with it. And then along comes the Polio Paradox. It's dynamite. Full of personal stories, detailed research and straightforward practical advice, it's what we all should have had by the bedside for the last forty years. Prepare for a bumpy ride though. A lot of the news isn't good, especially if you've invested heavily in playing nearly able bodied for half a century. But then feeling this fatigued isn't too enjoyable either, and the Polio Paradox really can help with that. As it's a US publication, it's no surprise to find that the information about British health services isn't entirely accurate or useful but hey, we over-achieving, over-educated polio survivors know how to get the extra information we need, don't we? It's just admitting we need it that's the problem.
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