Author Susan Schoenbeck shares her personal story in Polio Girl.
Schoenbeck contracted polio at age seven months and was placed in an iron lung. She writes about the fear, shame, blame, and stigma as her family struggles to deal with the uncertainties and pain of having a child with polio.
Schoenbeck's book is full of helpful information for the over 300,000 people in the United States and 15 million polio survivors worldwide who continue to deal with the long-haul symptoms of Polio.