See Tommy Run: Life on Polio Hill

By T.H. Phelan

Book Overview

An infant child living with residual polio in a cloistered (sheltered) life was selected to be given research therapy. This post-polio program was picked by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth KS to see if polio wracked individuals could be rehabilitated to become self-sufficient enough to live, at best a normal life. After years of this "sheltered life", the author began survival training at 5-1/2 years. Moved to a hospital school for an education and more physical therapy. The move for which the author was totally unprepared, for the next 4 years, life was at time humorous or ho-hum, and at times perilously close to tragic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401036228
• ISBN13: 9781401036225
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 5.8"