Oral history interview with Christy Rushing, 2007 November 29.

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Oral history interview with Christy Rushing, 2007 November 29.

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Rushing relates that the polio she contracted as an 18 month old child was misdiagnosed as laryngotracheitis. As a child she underwent several surgeries to correct a limp and was sent to Smouse School in Des Moines for physically disabled children. Health problems later in life were attributed to having had polio as a child. She describes how others have reacted to her disability and the chronic pain she suffers as a post-polio patient.

Transcript: 8 leaves

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Rushing, Christy, b. 1952,

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Winggenberg, Wendy,

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Smouse Opportunity School.

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