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...three years before the polio vaccine was available, I was a 33-month-old toddler. I took a nap with my 5-year-old cousin. When we woke up, she was fine, but I had a fever, was in terrific pain and could not walk. After rushing me to the hospital and seeing me go through two spinal taps, my parents heard the dreaded diagnosis: polio. I had paralysis in both legs, my back, right arm, diaphragm and lungs. I spent the next four months in the hospital until I was miraculously able to breathe on my own again. Ahead...
...shame, I felt at being so visibly and conspicuously out of control that upset me. My face glowed angrily with a rash that I couldn’t make go away, and even though I was surrounded by my closest friends, I was so embarrassed that I took a nap instead of going downstairs to help cook dinner...
...When I awoke from my nap I decided to cede defeat to my rash. Somehow, this conscious surrender to a force outside of my control helped me to enjoy the weekend more—a trip that could have been spoiled by the specter of commencement. I decided that graduation, like embarrassing skin diseases, is just something you have to let happen to you. Unlike hives, you might even enjoy...
...TIME TO NAP...
...Reilly said she devoted herself to the feminist cause, firmly believing that eventually the issue would be solved and she “could take a nap...