January 2024 Newsletter
Inside this Issue:
It’s a New Year . . . With New Resolutions: We’re bringing up an old subject – Exercise. As we enter our 10th year of service to Polio Survivors and their families, this topic is definitely in the top three.
Rehabilitative Physician, Carol Vandenakker Albanese, MD wrote an outstanding article for Post-Polio Health International - Exercise Guidelines for Polio Survivors.
We love this quote: “You understand your body better than anybody else, so when you’re working with a therapist or a trainer or talking to your PCP, don’t be afraid to speak up and say, ‘Hey, I just can’t do that’ or ‘That hurts to do that.’ “
“Life is like a river. Sometimes it sweeps you gently along, and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”
This quote by Emma Smith is how Theresa Wilbank begins her talk on the topic of Sustainable Caregiving.
PHI ended their 2023 Town Hall series with this thoughtful presentation.
The Eradication of Polio . . . It’s what we ALL want.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has given us a brief review of 2023 and outlines their goals for 2024.
We’ve heard a lot about the new oral polio vaccine (nOPV2), but they’ve given a statistic that’s almost too big to grasp. A BILLION doses of the new vaccine have been administered since WHO gave it the Emergency Use Authorization in the fall of 2020.
Team Survivor 2023. We ARE a part of the solution.
Welcome William Montgomery to our Professional Advisory Team.
A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), he has been supportive of our work since we began in 2014, often providing us with interesting articles. Known as “Bill”, he has a strong interest in not only mental health, but also physical, and spiritual health.
His interest in Post-Polio and our Polio Network, stems in part from his wife Loretta, a talented artist and curious learner who had a run-in with polio as a child.
His first article: “Being Seen Only as My Disability” comes from a question sent to us by a survivor who struggles with wanting to be seen as a loving, caring woman who is more than “just” her struggle with the late effects of Polio.
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