September 01, 2008

Walking ahead: Postal carrier overcomes polio, accident to deliver mail

LJWorld.com / Walking ahead: Postal carrier overcomes polio, accident to deliver mail: "Jerry Totten, 51, is a survivor. He’s defied death on two occasions and is Lawrence’s only remaining full-time, walking mail carrier. He admits he’s lucky to be walking at all.
Totten contracted polio when he was 2 years old. “I don’t remember it personally,” he says. “My parents told me about it. They thought I wouldn’t survive. I was in the hospital a long time.”
He defied the odds but it took him two years to learn to walk again"

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