One day a wasp got tangled-up in our three year old daughter Katy's hair and she started to scream. Gino and RK rushed to her and leaned against her, facing opposite directions. A neighbor tried to help but was snarled away. My wife soon freed the wasp and calmed Katy. Those dogs were great! RIP.
~Lee
Yep, I'm with the 40 guys.
Nope on 40. I am now going with 24 thanks to Paulplaye
It's been 70 years since the last time I was wrong.
~Lee
A thousand years ago Mary and I had a pair of wonderful labs named Rimsky-Korsakov and Giovani da Vinci. We called them RK and Gino. They watched over our then pre-school daughters.
~Lee
brooklyn-camera I wrote:
My wife contracted Polio at 18 months of age. Wore a leg brace for a numbers of years and her left leg was left with no use whatsoever of her left leg. Now at age 75 she has been diagnosed post polio syndrome for years. The saying was use it or lose it, not it's save it and keep it.
She went from walking with a limp, to a cane, to crutches, to a manual wheelchair and now to now a power chair to get around. Anyone who believes that vaccinations due harm have no idea of the results of not having a vaccine to protect the masses. We went to GoldWater Memorial Hospital in NYC for testing and seen the basement which had so many iron lung machines which was used to let kids live, it's was enough to make you cry.
Vaccinations yes!
My wife contracted Polio at 18 months of age. Wore... (
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Amen to that. Wishing you and your wife a pain-free holiday season.
~Lee
One of those signs has been hanging on the side of a cabinet in our dining room for six months. My wife was a fan of him.
~Lee
Fifth grade, after school dance. The mothers of the PTA were there to instruct us pre-teens on the on the mechanics, joys, and duties of dancing and interacting with the opposite sex. Mrs. Gerstenberger taught me the basics of the two-step. She then suggested I ask a girl to dance. "Emm, okay I guess." She suggested that I ask Gretta, a polio survivor who wore a steel brace and a shoe with a huge heel. Before I could mutter a protest she said, "No one has asked her and you'll admired by many others besides giving her a great memory." We danced and talked over cookies and punch, and I became a different person in my outlook on life.
~Lee
Canisdirus wrote:
I got it once but just in my feet.
The doctor said I had Tolio...
Are you sure it wasn't Toemaine Poisoning?
~Lee
As an infant I was confined to a "Polio Ward" at a local hospital. A very observant nurse noticed a strange red spot on one of my toes. It was a spider bite and not polio at all. The doctors took appropriate action and the world has enjoyed my presence since. To this day spiders seem attracted to me, maybe I smell like a fly to them.
~Lee
Take a bow! Nicely done.
~Lee
I found it both relaxing and inspiring. Thanks for posting it.
~Lee
Good luck and please be safe. I am another who will miss your posts.
~Lee