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A passage in Philip Roth’s novel Nemesis describes the horror of catching polio in the US town of Newark in 1944, when outbreaks of the disease were common and each summer was spent in fear of infection.
“Finally the cataclysm began – the monstrous headache, the enfeebling exhaustion, the severe nausea, the raging fever, the unbearable muscle ache, followed in another forty-eight hours by the paralysis”, it says.
Read moreWhat are you doing to keep your body, mind and spirit healthy? Polio Australia’s upcoming Health and Wellness Retreat will allow you to zone out of your everyday and zone in to your body, mind and spirit with your fellow polio survivors and the wider post-polio community.
Read moreIn April, Dr Nigel Quadros and his associate Dr Kandiah Umapathysivam (Sivam) held an information session with Polio SA members about their proposed research on improving the lives of people who experience sarcopenia (the loss of muscle mass and strength due to ageing) as a result of an earlier polio infection.
Read moreInside this edition:
The Sarcopenia Project:research into reducing the loss of muscle mass and strength due to ageing
How to exercise if you are living with post polio syndrome
Health and Wellness Retreat 2017: look after your body, mind and spirit
Polio then and now: the story of a crippling disease on the verge of worldwide eradication
Humour
It was 1946 and the war was finally over. The family had moved from London to Essex and I attended the local primary school.
One day we were supplied with a form to take home for our parents to sign, it was to advise them that with the onset of polio, the whole school was to be vaccinated, and they were required to sign the application giving their permission. With the knowledge that in the past I always had a bad reaction to any form of injection, my mother was naturally concerned.
Read moreThe Polio SA committee are always seeking to expand our reach and improve our member services.
Over the past two years we have worked with Community Business Bureau – a social enterprise dedicated to building the capacity and sustainability of not for profit organisations. Our focus to date has been on improving our member communications by updating our website, starting an email newsletter and Facebook page, and continuing production of this newsletter.
Read moreInside this edition:
Dr. Nigel Quadros
Reaching more people with post-polio
Polio in my life – a story by Terry Heighton
Humour
Resources from the British Polio Fellowship
On Monday 19 September, I flew into Sydney a little apprehensive about what the next three days would bring. The following morning, I walked into the foyer of the Four Seasons Hotel along with 250 delegates, presenters, carers and friends and was immediately put at ease.
Read moreJo Gordon has had a love of drawing and painting since she was about six years old. After leaving school, she went to art school to refine her natural talent and gain useful skills and techniques in life drawing.
Read moreTechnical difficulties didn’t stop the show when US-based Dr DeMayo, a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation spoke to a full house for Polio SA in Glenunga on Sunday 18th September.
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