Limping through Life

“Limping through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir” is a book written by Jerry Apps. The story is set in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, a time when the country was in the grip of a polio epidemic. The author, Jerry Apps, contracted polio at the age of twelve. He shares his personal journey before, during, and after the disease, as well as his struggles with post-polio syndrome.