Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

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Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

The book I read was called Small Steps: The year I got polio. It is an autobiography about peg Kehret, and when she got polio in the seventh grade. It started on homecoming morning; she was building the seventh grade float. Then in the hallway, by her locker she all of the sudden she fainted and woke in the hospital not remembering how she got there or who changed her clothes. Then she went home and fell asleep on her bed for about two hours than woke up and she couldn't move her parents took her back to the hospital to get tested the doctor asked her parents to leave after her parents left the doctor said "After multiple tests... we have came to the conclusion that you are paralyzed from the neck down". What they did to find out if she had polio was to drain some fluid from her spin and tested it for the deadly disease. This all happened in the late 1940's back when there wasn't a vaccine to prevent polio. In 1949 Peg Kehret turned 13. In her long years at he Sheltering Arms hospital she eventually took therapy and started to move her fingers, then parts of her arms then she could move both of her arms. After she could move her upper body she started to exercise her upper body. After about two or three yeas of therapy she started to move her feet and her legs. After another year of therapy she started to walk a little, then a little bit more each time she had therapy. I believe she got to meet Shirley Temple in the ten to twelve years at the Sheltering Arms hospital. I really enjoyed this true story of Peg Kehret

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Summary: A heart Warming Story
Review: I read this book earlier this year and it still lingers in my heart as a touching story filled with courage and hope. The seccond I picked up this book I couldn't set it down! This book makes you realize how hard the patients that have or have had polio had to suffer and how hard it is to recover from this deadly virus. I would reccommend this book to anyone at the drop of a hat.

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Summary: Taking Small Steps
Review: In Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret, Peg has plenty of friends, a brother, and two loving parents. She's the average middle school girl. How much more normal can you get? One day while in choir class, she has this terrible muscle spasm. That's the beginning of what made her unique.
Peg's temperature rises, and is taken to the hospital, only to find out she has polio, the only case in her town of that year. Peg is immediately put into isolation, where she becomes paralyzed from the neck down, and cannot breathe properly. She develops not only one type of polio, not two, but three types. The author made me feel like I was there, witnessing Peg's discomfort.
Read about Peg's feelings as her polio worsens, then gets better. Share her triumphs and disappointments. You'll be caught up in this book, and you won't want to put it down.
Peg Kehret tells what happens in Peg's fight against polio. The author really makes you feel like you're there. I think people of all ages looking for a good drama will really enjoy this book. It teaches you what happens when you're willing to try anything to get things the way you want them. This book takes you away from your world, and into Peg Shulze's.

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Summary: Learning the meaning of friendship
Review: Small steps: The Year I Got Polio is an extraordinary book by Peg Kehret. This non-fiction book tells the true story of Pegs struggle to overcome polio. Suddenly at age twelve Peg is paralyzed from the neck down. With the wide spread rumors of what polio is Peg starts out with little hope to survive, let alone to overcome this disease. After the diagnosis is confirmed Peg is brought to a hospital over one hundred miles away from her home. At first Peg is overcome with a fear that can hardly be comforted by her parents and her older brother. After starting out in a hospital designed strictly for polio patients with severe cases, Peg is suddenly moved to THE SHELTERING ARMS (a hospital for polio patients who may have a chance to survive and rehabilitate), there Peg not only gains strength from herself but also from her new roommates and doctors. It is from her new roommates at The Sheltering Arms that she learns what friendship is really about.
This book is a wonderful book that expresses the author's true thoughts and emotions in such a way that you can't stop reading because you don't know what Peg will be thinking next.