... at a flu vaccination clinic for seniors. The head nurse called over one of the student nurses to point out my scar and educate her on what it was for. I didn't mind at all.
That business with waking up in the iron lung ward must have been really scary for you. They must have been hard up for space to have done that.
I do remember that every single school had a few kids in heavy leg braces. I always feel I must point out (though not to you, obviously) that there were no kids in wheelchairs because no schools had ramps or any other accommodations for those who couldn't manage stairs and other obstacles. Quadriplegics ... ah well. One of our neighbor ladies had gotten polio at the age of 19 and was dependent on her brother's wife for every detail of life. 
Polio still exists in the world at large. Health aid workers keep trying to get to the back of beyond in places like Pakistan and Africa, but in those places ignorance and conspiracy theories kill not just kids but health aid workers as well -- because a significant number have been murdered for their efforts. So here we are in the US with parents who think all vaccinations are dangerous, and there is the big wide world where polio has not been wiped out. I shudder to think of some international traveller arriving in Florida's Disney World next time.
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