![]() She started off with just a muscle spasm, thinking it was no big deal. Have you ever thought of what it would be like one day, waking up, feeling completely fine, and then you have a muscle spasm, and you find out later that you have a disease that can severely hurt you, or even kill you? In the book, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, Peg comes to find that she has three different types of polio. This book takes you away from your world, and into Peg Shulze's. It teaches you what happens when you're willing to try anything to get things the way you want them. I think people of all ages looking for a good drama will really enjoy this book. The author really makes you feel like you're there. Peg Kehret tells what happens in Peg's fight against polio. You'll be caught up in this book, and you won't want to put it down. Read about Peg's feelings as her polio worsens, then gets better. ![]() The author made me feel like I was there, witnessing Peg's discomfort. She develops not only one type of polio, not two, but three types. ![]() ![]() Peg is immediately put into isolation, where she becomes paralyzed from the neck down, and cannot breathe properly. Peg's temperature rises, and is taken to the hospital, only to find out she has polio, the only case in her town of that year. That's the beginning of what made her unique. How much more normal can you get? One day while in choir class, she has this terrible muscle spasm. In Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret, Peg has plenty of friends, a brother, and two loving parents. ![]()
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