Polio and other conditions
can affect Cancer Treatment
Update on yesterday’s Post: suddenly my visitor stats to the website went rocketing up – I never knew so many people had problems from other conditions, that impacted on cancer treatment. I was even singled out by Chris Salter, who publishes a daily bulletin on Polio around the world, and made me feel very honoured to think he was reading my article. But researching available information, it seems to those MDT teams don’t take in to account what else we have had,

President Franklin Roosevelt, polio survivor
It had taken me two months to get over problems because the anaesthetist for my cancer op. had disregarded the fact that I had had polio. Next time I asked the British Polio Fellowship to send their pre-operation pack to my surgeon, and also my anaesthetist, and bless them – both read it from cover to cover, and I sailed through this op.
Grudgingly the Oncologists acknowledged that polio might impact on some of my treatment, and at last I made such a fuss that I was sent to see a Polio specialist, and from then onwards things improved. But it took visits to hospitals in Europe before I found doctors to treat the two conditions holistically. Continue reading →