Through A Looking glass

In 1930, Wesleyan University cancelled its football season. Health officials closed schools in Topeka, Kansas, and banned public meetings in Los Angeles, California. Why? Because of the threat and fear of polio. Through A Looking Glass is a powerful and moving story of Doris Nelson and her spirit that would not, could not, be contained...even though her body was paralyzed from the neck down from polio and imprisoned in an Iron Lung for thirty seven years. Doris contracted polio in 1946 during a state-wide polio epidemic, in the prime of her life and at the height of her dreams. Doris' incredible journal of courage and inspiration will touch you deeply. This is her story, her struggle and her small victories living with a life-threatening disease. This is the original manuscript as Doris typed it herself one letter, one word, one sentence at a time using a typing rod held in her mouth.