Living with Polio

What's it like living with polio?

Check out some of the stories from around the world in the submenu to this section, or watch Eileen's story (YouTube Video)

President Roosevelt, musicians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Ian Dury, golfer Jack Nicklaus, actors Donald Sutherland and Alan Alda, actress and humanitarian Mia Farrow, and novelist SIr Walter Scott all have something in common - they have lived with polio.

Information on these and other famous people who have lived with polio can be found by visiting the Disabled World website. 

For Indian cricketer B S Chandresekar's story click here. 

Read a BBC News online article from 2003 about a Hertfordshire man who at that time had been living with an iron lung (mechanical ventilator) for the past 48 years.  John Prestwich, MBE, died three years later in 2006, and his life story can be found by clicking here.

More polio true stories from Pakistan can be found by clicking here.