Her new room has a roommate named Tommy who is put into an iron lung. After a few days, she is allowed to move out of isolation but all of the things in her room are burned because they may contain the virus. Peg is placed under an oxygen tent to help her breathe a little easier. She spends a little time at Sheltering Arms before she is transferred to University Hospital because she needs a respirator. Her parents take her to the hospital where she is diagnosed with three different kinds of polio.
She goes home with a high fever, and around midnight, she starts to vomit. In September 1949, Peg collapses at her school in Minnesota. This is a story of strength and courage in the face of an uncertain future. Surviving the initial paralysis brought on by the illness, Peg then had to learn how to walk again. This 2016-2017 Oregon Battle of the Books selection tells the true story of Peg Kehret, who at age 12 contracted three different kinds of polio.
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