Polio Place

This biography focuses on the author's experiences with hospitals and doctors and her stay at the Roosevelt Foundation facility in Warm Springs, Georgia. The story gives a glimpse of how the delivery of medical services has changed since the polio epidemics of the early 1950s. Describing what it was like to be a woman with a disability in that era, she was able to return home after a long hospitalization, where she continued in her role as wife, mother and later started her own business.