Stories of Survival
The stories on this page are from outside the Keystone State of Pennsylvania.
You can read those series of articles of life as a Polio Survivor HERE 
New Stories
How Surviving Polio has Impacted my Personality
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Frida Kahlo - Outshine Your Pain
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My Story - An Inconvenient Truth to those who Refuse Vaccines 
60 Years Later - Two Friends United
A Description of PPS (by a survivor in Arizona)
A Reassuring Touch from Eleanor Roosevelt
Arizona . . .Helping Survivors Move Forward
"Breakfast at Ina's" the story of Chicago Survivor Ina Pinkney
Celebrating our Neighbors from Nebraska
Charlie Haden - Famous Jazz Musician
Come Smile With Me (Peter Thwaites)
Deborah Cunningham - Disability Advocate
Disabled by Polio, Enabled by Determination 
Disability?  What Disability?
Fabulous Video About PPS -
           (make sure you 'click' on English, then go to the 'Greetings' video)
Famous People Who Have Had Polio
Fighting for My Life
From Carrollton Texas - Support and Fellowship
From Polio to Professional Dancer
​ From Polio Patient to Polio Voice  (Daniel J. Wilson, PhD.)​
Illness is a Life Sentence - one survivor's story
Itzhak Pearlman - "I Woke Up and Couldn't Walk"
Kudos to our Neighbors from Nebraska
Life After Polio
Moving the Post-Polio Conversation Forward - an interview with Wenzel Leff, MD
Newspaper Coverage from our New Jersey Neighbors
One Survivor's Story - a blog from Mexico
Polio Survivor Describes Lasting Impact of Disease  
Polio Survivors In Music
Polio Survivors Relive Disease
Polio:  You Remembered
Polio Survivor Making a Difference
Sunny's Blog - Conversations On Living Well with Polio (an active website)
The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times - Peter Kavanaugh
The Wrench Guy (His Story)
The Wrench Guy (The Video)
TV Host Bill Cullen was a Polio Survivor