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Show ETHEL NIEL ON 1 20 things. But it was funny. I didn't know that the one that own d it Morgan Dyr ng' daughter got it until one day at activity club. Helen Dyreng was aying that it wa ur scary when their daughter, Margaret got it. I said I didn t know she had it and sh said she did. She said all of a sudden Margaret woke up and started crying and saying her legs hurt and she couldn't move them. But at that time they knew what was the matter so she got attention right away. But with my husband, he got it in the middle of August and we couldn't find out what was wrong until November. The doctor was treating him for rheumatoid arthritis. Then the chiropractor saw me uptown and said, "Is Max better?" I said, "No, he isn't." He said, "Can I come and look at him." He come down and said, "He's got polio. You ever heard of polio?" I said no. "Well, that's what he's got." So like I said, the only ones that had it were just either working there or around the area. Now Clarence Hall's twelve-year-old boy got it; he died. And then Edda Cox's son, Charles, got it and he got it when he was younger. I don't know whether they made his one leg longer or the other one shorter or what, but, anyway, he got over it pretty well. Then over two blocks, then a Marks boy got it. Then Don's wife (Don was Morgan Dyreng's brother) Donna-they live over on the comer here; he worked there-but she didn't have a bad case either. By that time they knew what to do. Then Max's doctor said, "Can you get him up to Salt Lake to the hospital. There's a polio ward up there." So he was there from November to May. But it crippled up his leg and stuff. But if they got it sooner, it wouldn't have had to been like that. BEC: Was he on crutches his whole life? ETH: Oh, yes. First he had long leg braces, then he dropped that and went to crutches. One time, I almost threw that long leg brace away, then I thought, no, I think I'll keep it 17 |
