02534nam 2200541 a 450 991078275850332120230721004553.01-58729-752-3(CKB)1000000000704727(EBL)843271(OCoLC)297116273(SSID)ssj0000244574(PQKBManifestationID)11240366(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244574(PQKBWorkID)10170754(PQKB)10146514(MiAaPQ)EBC843271(MdBmJHUP)muse8997(Au-PeEL)EBL843271(CaPaEBR)ebr10354552(EXLCZ)99100000000070472720080306d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSeven wheelchairs[electronic resource] a life beyond polio /Gary PresleyIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20081 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-693-4 Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice, tell his dad that he was too ill to feed the calves, and walk from barn to bed with shaky, dizzying steps. He never walked again. By the next day, burning with the fever of polio, he was fastened into the claustrophobic cocoon of the iron lung that would be his home for the next three months. Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm anPoliomyelitisPatientsUnited StatesBiographyPeople with disabilitiesUnited StatesBiographyPoliomyelitisPatientsPeople with disabilities362.196/8350092BPresley Gary1540202MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782758503321Seven wheelchairs3791707UNINA