Traveling Without A Spare: A Survivor's Guide to Navigating the Post-Polio Journey

By Wenzel A. Leff and Wenzel A. Leff MD

Book Overview

Decades after recovering from polio, many aging Americans are grappling with an emergence of new pain, weakness, and fatigue. This unforeseen symphony of symptoms is a central fact of many polio survivors? lives. In Traveling Without A Spare: A Survivor?s Guide to Navigating the Post-Polio Journey, Wenzel A. Leff, MD, explains how polio?s initial attack depleted the body?s neuromuscular reserves, so that when former polio patients begin to lose cells to the natural process of aging, they find they are truly ?traveling without a spare.? The author draws from his own polio experience and his forty-plus-year career in Internal Medicine to provide polio survivors and their families, caregivers, and healthcare team a clearer understanding of the stages and complexities of polio. This informative book will help survivors evaluate their own bodies and condition, and empower them to make the most of their remaining strength and mobility. "With medical and scientific acumen, but also wisdom and humor, Dr. Leff has given us a well-written treatise on post-polio syndrome, as manifested through his professional and personal life." Neil R. Cashman, MD Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Scientific Director of PrioNet Canada and Chair of Post-Polio Task Force (1997-99)

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578088436
• ISBN13: 9780578088433
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: WAL Publishing LLC
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"