![]() ![]() ![]() 8-13)Īfter years of normal living, a teenager learns he has epilepsy and has to cope not just with the disease, but with the side effects, including the hostility of his peers. Almost a half-century later, this lovely book refocuses attention on what matters most: health, love of family, friends, determination, generosity, and compassion. A simple, direct, and sometimes self-deprecating style of writing tenderly draws readers into Kehret's experiences and the effects of the disease firsthand. Kehret's were the only parents who visited her each Sunday, and soon ``adopted'' her fellow polio victims. Bad haircuts and lost ball games would never bother me again.'' There are touching black-and-white photographs of her roommates, who had already been there for ten years. I had lived with excruciating pain and with loneliness and uncertainty about the future. ``I had a strange feeling that I was reading about a different lifetime. After her fever broke and she lay paralyzed in the hospital, her parents delivered a big brown packet of letters from her classmates. ![]() Kehret (Earthquake Terror, 1996, etc.) describes the disease, the diagnosis, the severe symptoms, treatments, physical therapy, slow recovery, and return home with walking sticks-and how she was forever changed. ![]() From a writer known for her fiction, a moving memoir about a 12-year-old who got polio in 1949 in Austin, Minnesota. ![]()
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