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Limping through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir

Tekijä: Jerry Apps

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Nonfiction. HTML: Limping through Life A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir Jerry Apps "Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same." �??from the Introduction Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Sauk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin's Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personal book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer. A hardworking farm kid who loved playing softball, young Jerry Apps would have to make many adjustments and meet many challenges after that winter night he was stricken with a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness. In Limping through Life he explores the ways his world changed after polio and pays tribute to those family members, teachers, and friends who helped him along the way.… (lisätietoja)

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I've always enjoyed reading Jerry Apps, and this book is no exception. The best parts in my opinion were the first 2/3 of the book, where he spends more time describing his rural WI environment and how getting polio affected his work on the farm. Once he gets into high school and college I started to get bored with the book...probably because he spent much more time describing more urban situations. I'm more interested in what life was like on the farm than on his journey to become a writer. Still, I liked the book overall and am still continuing to search for similar writers. (

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Jeff.Rosendahl | Sep 21, 2021 |

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I won this book through LibraryThing and just loved this book. It's a biography from Jerry Apps, who was stricken with Polio when he was 12 years old. Jerry is a remarkable person and is an awesome writer. His parents did not give up on him & helped him in his recovery period. Every thing Jerry endured helped him and I love that he took everything as a learning experience and did get better day by day. His parents helped shape him for the future, his work on the farm, driving a tractor, walking, riding a bicycle to church. This book was a wonderful quick read and I love that Jerry says at the end of the book that if it wasn't for Polio, he would not be the writer that he is today. (

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lg4154 | Mar 1, 2017 |

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The Synopsis

In this book Jerry Apps recounts his life of how when just at the age of 12, he contracted Polio. Here we get a close look of his life and all the trials Polio caused him. A young farm boy who loved playing softball to becoming a successful writer. This tale shows all the real raw emotion and how one boys life changed on a fateful winter night.

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I really enjoyed the first half of this book the most. It accurately shows what life is like on a rural farm in WI. The writer holds no bar on expressing the emotion and depression a kid feels upon learning he has this disease. Throughout the book you see some amazing people step in and help him to overcome his depression with having Polio. I felt that you really can see the inner side to him. However as the book progressed into more of how he became a writer, I felt myself losing interest because it started feeling like the writer was trying to get an interview somewhere vs this is my life and what happened. However it was still an enjoyable read and I will still give it 4 stars. Thank you librarything for sending me this book in exchange for my honest review. (

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lwol88 | Aug 17, 2016 |

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Limping Through Life is the story of Jerald "Jerry" Apps struggle with polio, a disease he contracted not long before it became a thing of the past due to vaccines. This book grabs your attention, written in a clear conversational tone. Jerry writes about his difficulties and triumphs, and you spend the time cheering him on. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys memoirs.

lemur123 | Jul 28, 2016 |

I am a Jerry Apps fan, but this book is his absolute best. I didn't know he had polio as a kid - does not walk with a noticeable limp now. It's his own story, of a farm kid (himself) contracting polio at the age of 12, and dealing with that. The disease rendered him unable to farm or pretty much to do anything in the way of manual labor, and so his life took a whole new turn. Jerry writes with humor and wisdom, and tells an engrossing tale. This is absolutely not one to be missed. (

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JeanetteSkwor | Jun 8, 2013 |

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Nonfiction. HTML:

Limping through Life

A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir

Jerry Apps

"Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same."

�??from the Introduction

Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Sauk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin's Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personal book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer.

A hardworking farm kid who loved playing softball, young Jerry Apps would have to make many adjustments and meet many challenges after that winter night he was stricken with a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness. In Limping through Life he explores the ways his world changed after polio and pays tribute to those family members, teachers, and friends who helped him along the way.

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