Box 63
Container
Contains 19 Results:
No.528 Carol Jean Masheter, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Masheter (b. 1946) was born in Santa Monica, California. She discusses her family and childhood. She (along with her younger sister) contracted polio at age six while visiting relatives in Wichita, Kansas. Both girls were sent to a nearby hospital for spinal taps and were admitted. She remembers receiving intravenous horse serum and then becoming violently ill for a period of time. She describes receiving hot-pack...
Dates:
2010
No.529 Lois Hunter Moser, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Moser (b. 1935) was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She discusses growing up in Cranston, Rhode Island. She entered the Children’s Hospital School of Nursing in Boston in 1953. She discusses her school program, classes, requirements, living arrangement, duties, and their uniforms.She began working with polio patients her first year of school and rotated through departments caring for patients in the isolation,...
Dates:
2010
No.530 Joan Marie Peters Vandeventer Ogden, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Ogden (b. 1944) grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She discusses her family. She contracted polio at age seven. She recalls being sick with a sore throat, getting sicker, and being taken to the hospital for a spinal tap. She developed difficulty breathing, was transferred to the Children’s Hospital in Boston and was placed in an iron lung for about 24 hours initially. She thereafter was in and out of an iron lung for...
Dates:
2010
No.531 Marcia Edgley Packer, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Packer (b. 1946) was born in Preston, Idaho. She tells about her early family life. She contracted polio at age six, inSeptember 1952. She describes what she remembers about getting sick. At home she received heat treatment, which she describes. She was taken to a doctor for a spinal tap and sent to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Pocatello when polio was suspected. She remembers experiencing pain and fever for some...
Dates:
2010
No.532 Richard William Sline, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Sline (b. 1947) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He discusses his family life and schooling. He contracted polio in 1950 at age three in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He combines his own recollections with stories he was told about getting sick. His family home was quarantined with a large red “P” sign on the front door while Rick was in the hospital (approximately three months). After the hospital, his arm was in a...
Dates:
2010
No.533 Barbara Greenlee Toomer, 2009
File — Box: 63, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Toomer (b. 1929) was born in Pasadena, California. She discusses her family and schooling. She graduated from St. Monica High School in 1947, where she was on the basketball, tennis, and swimming teams. She attended Santa Monica Junior College, graduated from El Camino College, and graduated from St. Joseph’s College of Nursing in San Francisco. She discusses her school experiences and training during this...
Dates:
2009
No.534 Harold A. Decker, MD, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Decker (b. 1932), born in Salt Lake City, Utah, discusses his family, growing up and schooling. He contracted polio while in medical school at the University of Utah. He describes getting sick, including overall painful spasms through his body. He was admitted to the hospital for a spinal tap, which he describes. He was put in isolation for a period of time, then bed rest for one month. He received hot pack therapy...
Dates:
2010
No.535 Sharon Ann Jensen Duram, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Duram (b. 1939) discusses growing up in Brigham City while working in her father’s general store until her early twenties. She contracted polio at age twelve in early September 1951. She describes getting sick. She spent ten days in the hospital and relates what she remembers of her experiences there. After hospitalization, she received physical therapy at Dee Hospital in Ogden, along with heat pack therapy, which...
Dates:
2010
No.536 Christopher Lynn Hill, 2010
File — Box: 63, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Hill (b. 1947) was born in Los Angeles, California. He discusses his family and neighborhood. He contracted polio in September 1953 at the age of five. He was hospitalized and was in an iron lung for a period of time. He relates what he remembers of getting sick and his hospital experiences. He received hot pack treatments and some physical therapy. He talks about being ostracized in the neighborhood and at school...
Dates:
2010