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Broken Yesterdays (Hardcover)
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Broken Yesterdays (Hardcover)
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In 1922, at the age of four, Joseph William Meagher contracted
polio, leaving him with a back shaped like the harp of his Irish
ancestors. Only all-night massaging by the family doctor saved him
from a wheelchair life. After a barbaric (and fruitless) treatment
to straighten his spine, Joe returned home to the shelter of a
loving family. But little by little, the cold eye of the outside
world made clear to him how different he was. His parents took
medical advice and sent Joe off to Port Jefferson, Long Island, to
spend the next four years at a hospital/school for crippled
children. Though many there were severely disabled, they had the
same unquenchable zest for life as any other kids, and with great
innocence and gusto went about the business of being kids in the
best way they could. In addition to presenting a picture of the
very beginnings of rehabilitative therapy, "Broken Yesterdays" is
the unswervingly candid and often amusing memoir of a boy who
learned early that tears did no good, and that he faced a choice:
Either surrender to the bitterness of being different or, through
strength of will, make the best of what he had in him. Fortunately
for his readers, Joseph William Meagher made the right choice.
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