Polio
and Me
By Ken
Dalton
Genre:
Personal memoir {discovery of polio vaccine}
The year is 1943. A five year old boy wakes up. He cannot stand
or hold an apple in his hand. The boy is rushed to his family doctor, diagnosed
with polio, and taken from his mother’s arms to the contagion ward at the
county hospital.
Thus begins his eleven year journey of surgeries,
rehabilitation, and therapy so that one day, he can walk, unaided, across a
stage and receive his high school diploma.
While the boy struggles through his childhood, and in spite
decades of research, polio epidemics continue to paralyze and kill hundreds of
thousands of adults and children well into the late 1950’s.
Polio and Me provides the heartbreaking story of polio’s
devastating past, the struggle to overcome present, and promising future.
About
the Author
Ken Dalton was born in Los Angeles in 1938. In 1943 he
contracted polio and spent the next eleven years of his childhood in and out of
hospitals.
He is married to his childhood sweetheart and is a father of
three, a grandfather of four, and great-grandfather of nine.
After a successful thirty-eight year management career with
Pacific Telephone Company, Ken retired to write golf and travel articles for
Golf Digest, Golf Illustrated, Fairways and Greens, and Golf.com. During two NBC-TV Celebrity Golf
Tournaments at Lake Tahoe, he interviewed Olympic Decathlon Champion, Bruce
Jenner when he was Bruce, not Caitlyn, the mischievous Chicago Bears
quarterback, Jim McMahon, the iconic Vice-President Dan Quail, and NBC Today
show anchor, Matt Lauer.
Ken designed, built, and operated a 2000 case winery named
Pommeraie Vineyards where he produced award winning Cabernet Sauvignon and
Chardonnay.
He has published six mystery novels, The Bloody Birthright, The Big Showstopper, Death is a Cabernet, The Tartan Shroud, Brother Can You Spare A Dime, and The Unsavory Critic.
Ken’s memoir, Polio
and Me, marks his initial
foray into the world of non-fiction.
Presently, Ken is working on his seventh Pinky and Bear mystery, The Heretic’s Hymnal.
Thank you, Cindy for spotlighting my book, Polio and Me.
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