I survived polio, let’s ensure that no children in the UK or elsewhere face this threat ever again
I contracted polio as an 11-month-old baby living in Coventry. The disease left me with a one-inch length difference between my left and right legs, and very restricted movement in my left foot. I was relatively fortunate as others were more severely paralysed, some relying on iron lungs to breathe at all. Three years after
