Abandoned Quote by Dustin Lance Black

When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid…

— Scottie Pippen

I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for…

— Robert Redford

My father was a polio survivor.

— Andy Kim

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was -…

— Helen Gurley Brown

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so…

— Michael Greger

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her…

— Uzo Aduba

My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work…

— John Caudwell

My mom held me in her stomach for 9 months, she watched her feet swell , she struggled to climb stairs, she got breathless…

— Ritu Ghatourey

My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

My mom died when I was 11 years old.

— Tory Lanez

When my mum first had her aneurysm when I was nine, my sister was only 18 and she fully took care of me and…

— Judi Love

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

— Jack Nicklaus