Word: lipshultz
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...many patients, postpolio means having to take up the braces and wheelchairs they worked so hard to escape. Stanley Lipshultz, a Washington trial lawyer, is just starting to use the crutches his doctor prescribed. "I had a handicapped license plate on my car for two years before I actually used a handicapped parking space," he confesses. "The hardest part is you feel you're falling apart," says Rena Shnaider, a retired rehabilitative counselor from Oakland, California, who has spent her life in a wheelchair but who drove a car, went to college and had enough control over her body...
...seeing those braces again stirs memories from the '50s, when they were pulled out of school, sent away for treatment and then brought home to face insensitive peers. "You remember that while everyone else was out playing football, you were watching and wishing you could be with them," says Lipshultz. Through support groups and counseling, many polio survivors are for the first time putting those unpleasant memories behind them. "Many of us never got a chance to mourn our losses," says Shnaider. "It's important for people with postpolio to face their experience and allow themselves to feel...
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