Flashback to 1962 ---- S.O.S.
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Sabin Oral Sunday is October 21. Here is an opportunity to virtually eliminate polio in our city.
To do so, however, every man, woman and child must take Sabin Oral polio vaccine, Type 1. For this service there is only a twenty-five cent donation requested, if you can afford it.
The safety of the oral polio vaccine to be used in our county this fall has not been questioned.
You and your family are urged to participate in SABIN ORAL SUNDAY. Watch your newspaper for final details.
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I remember the little paper cup with the sugar cube. What I remember most vividly, however, is my mother tripping and falling in the middle of the street three blocks from home afterwards, badly spraining her ankle. She dragged herself to the curb, and a few seconds later a car stopped and the driver jumped out. He thought she'd been run over!
He drove us home, and probably helped Mom into the house. I can't remember that, but I don't know how else she would have made it up the steps. She lay down on the couch, and I was given the assignment of unhooking her nylon stocking from the garter belt and gently removing it. I was so afraid I was going to hurt her, but she wasn't capable of doing it, and she didn't want to ask the doctor to do it.
Yes, doctors made house calls back in 1962. *sighs* It's no wonder I feel a bit creaky at times. I even remember getting my Salk polio vaccination, which would have been a few years earlier. Every kid in town, herded like cattle through the line. The vaccination was done with a sort of gun: the muzzle was placed against your upper arm and the doc pulled the trigger and BOOM, you were almost kinda safe from polio. Until something better came along in a few years.
I was pretty young. I might have remembered the Salk vaccination just from the factor of it being completely different from my normal childhood days, but I had two other reasons to remember it. Right after I got my shot, the doctor called to one of the nurses, "We've got a bleeder!" Most kids got their arm swabbed and were sent on their way, I had to receive special attention. I've always been special. :-)
I also remember at the supper table, I couldn't pick up my glass of milk using that arm. That's a trait that never changed. In high school, my parents and I all went to see our doctor (who was very old and officially retired, but still saw a few patients at his home) to receive flu shots. Afterwards, my parents shot pool with the doctor. I couldn't play. It hurt too much. :-(
Thanks for trudging down memory lane with me!
Sabin Oral Sunday is October 21. Here is an opportunity to virtually eliminate polio in our city.
To do so, however, every man, woman and child must take Sabin Oral polio vaccine, Type 1. For this service there is only a twenty-five cent donation requested, if you can afford it.
The safety of the oral polio vaccine to be used in our county this fall has not been questioned.
You and your family are urged to participate in SABIN ORAL SUNDAY. Watch your newspaper for final details.
~~~~
I remember the little paper cup with the sugar cube. What I remember most vividly, however, is my mother tripping and falling in the middle of the street three blocks from home afterwards, badly spraining her ankle. She dragged herself to the curb, and a few seconds later a car stopped and the driver jumped out. He thought she'd been run over!
He drove us home, and probably helped Mom into the house. I can't remember that, but I don't know how else she would have made it up the steps. She lay down on the couch, and I was given the assignment of unhooking her nylon stocking from the garter belt and gently removing it. I was so afraid I was going to hurt her, but she wasn't capable of doing it, and she didn't want to ask the doctor to do it.
Yes, doctors made house calls back in 1962. *sighs* It's no wonder I feel a bit creaky at times. I even remember getting my Salk polio vaccination, which would have been a few years earlier. Every kid in town, herded like cattle through the line. The vaccination was done with a sort of gun: the muzzle was placed against your upper arm and the doc pulled the trigger and BOOM, you were almost kinda safe from polio. Until something better came along in a few years.
I was pretty young. I might have remembered the Salk vaccination just from the factor of it being completely different from my normal childhood days, but I had two other reasons to remember it. Right after I got my shot, the doctor called to one of the nurses, "We've got a bleeder!" Most kids got their arm swabbed and were sent on their way, I had to receive special attention. I've always been special. :-)
I also remember at the supper table, I couldn't pick up my glass of milk using that arm. That's a trait that never changed. In high school, my parents and I all went to see our doctor (who was very old and officially retired, but still saw a few patients at his home) to receive flu shots. Afterwards, my parents shot pool with the doctor. I couldn't play. It hurt too much. :-(
Thanks for trudging down memory lane with me!
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Date: Jan. 25th, 2011 11:58 am (UTC)One time we were queuing to be vaccinated before a holiday abroad, and my big brother fainted at the needle, and I thought the doctor had killed him - I was only tiny, and was so horrified I collapsed too. Thump, thump.
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Date: Jan. 25th, 2011 02:58 pm (UTC)