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Author Presley, Gary.

Title Seven wheelchairs : a life beyond polio / Gary Presley
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008

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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
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Subject Presley, Gary -- Health
SUBJECT Presley, Gary fast
Subject Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
Health
People with disabilities
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781587297526
1587297523