Burning the Brace: A Daughter's Tale of Her Mothers Battle With Polio

My name is Mary Ann Williams, and this is a story about my mother, and it is Burning the Brace: A Daughter's Tale of Her Mother's Battle With Polio along with other mental-health traumas that included physical, emotional, and verbal Abuse.

By the time my mother, Shirley Ann, was born in 1938, tens of thousands of people were suffering or died from poliomyelitis (polio). It was the COVID-19 of its time. Found lying in her crib, shivering from an almost-108-degree fever, Shirley's grandparents...