Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir

by Jerry Apps

Limping through Life
A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir
Jerry Apps

"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."
--from the Introduction

Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870205803
• ISBN13: 9780870205804
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"