However, after getting paralyzed from the neck down, and meeting girls who are in a worse situation than her. She complains about how much homework she has, her siblings and all the other problems she has, like every other teenage girl. In the beginning of this story, Peg isn’t exactly a spoiled girl, but she isn’t a person who appreciates life either.

In her autobiography, she describes what her life was like when she was constantly moved from the hospital to the rehabilitation center. In her story, Peg is diagnosed with all three types. Type three causes a person to be extremely weak. Type two includes a stiff neck and paralysis. Type one includes a sore throat and the virus itself. Polio is a serious disease that is divided into three types. Yearly, it would kill and paralyze thousands of people. During this time polio was a disease that didn’t have a vaccine. Peg Schulze, her name as a child, lived in the 1930s. Small Steps: The year I Got Polio, by Peg Kehret, describes how she overcame polio. From this moment on, Peg’s life is about to take a drastic turn for the worse. A few minutes later, she in bed, with a one hundred two degree fever.

At lunch, she can’t pick up her drink because her hands shake so hard. However, in choir, she suddenly falls down, her legs locked. OL15839934W Page_number_confidence 86.98 Pages 194 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210706063004 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 361 Scandate 20210701235107 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780807574577 Tts_version 4.Peg is a normal girl twelve years old girl, who is excited about going to the Homecoming Day parade that afternoon. Urn:lcp:smallstepsyearig0000kehr:epub:e9b0513b-244e-48d3-ba3a-3cced03a3a5a Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier smallstepsyearig0000kehr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4xj1fm8g Invoice 2089 Isbn 0807574570 Lccn 95052641 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9239 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA12320 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:03:49 Boxid IA40168023 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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