“It was the day of my ninth birthday party, and they were putting me in the ambulance, when I remember hearing one of my friends saying, “Where is Sandy going? Isn't that Sandy? Today's her birthday party.” My mother never even had a chance to call off my birthday party. . . . I remember hearing somebody say, “If this doesn't stop, if her fever doesn't break, we're going to have to put her in an iron lung.” And I woke up the next day, my temperature had broken, and I was completely paralyzed from my neck down. I couldn't even move my neck. . . . And they sent me down to Warm Springs, Georgia, where I went for three summers in a row, where they rehabilitated me, they did corrective surgery on me, and they got me walking at least to where I could get around with braces and crutches. . . . I was so happy that there would never be any more paralysis from polio around the world again, if people used this vaccine. I was so grateful that nobody in my family would ever have to experience the things that I was going through and probably would have to go through the rest of my life.”