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Author Presley, Gary.

Title Seven wheelchairs : a life beyond polio / Gary Presley.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
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Summary In 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 an.
Subject Presley, Gary -- Health.
Presley, Gary -- Health.
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Presley, Gary. Seven wheelchairs. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008 9781587296932 1587296934 (DLC) 2008010014 (OCoLC)213479931
ISBN 9781587297526 (electronic bk.)
1587297523 (electronic bk.)
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