“It’s heart-wrenching to know that others could experience the emotional and physical pain that I have gone through and continue to go through in my life.”
I contracted polio 25 years after the world already had Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine. I was living in poverty in India in 1980 in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, and my birth mother hadn’t heard anything about the polio vaccine. At the age of six months, I contracted the virus and it paralyzed my legs for life. My birth mother gave me up to a Canadian-founded orphanage and I lived there for a year prior to being adopted by a couple in the Yukon territory, where I live now.
It’s all walking through using balance and swing and the support of the braces, steel bars, and leather straps. I always walk with two forearm crutches.I’m categorized as a person with a permanent physical disability. I still struggle to this day because there are not a lot of places that are fully accessible for people with disabilities. Snow and ice removal policies throughout Canada don’t prioritize accessible parking. It’s hard for me to get out of my car to then access a business.
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