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...for her as well, although she did manage to have four daughters, including my wife: My father-in-law was a physician, so that helped.

In the last years of her life, she suffered from post-Polio syndrome (after my father-in-law had passed away). Most physicians were not familiar with it, since survivors were increasingly rare.

It sounds as if you are in a sense, although you didn't contract the disease, a survivor yourself. My youngest sister-in-law also suffered from brief oxygen deprivation in her birth, so I know something about that is well, although my wife and her other two sisters had normal deliveries.

In a sense, although it is not physical in her case as in yours, my wife is something of a survivor, because the situation definitely affected my wife's upbringing psychologically, because my mother-in-law was reliant on pain medications and antidepressants. It made a difference, of course, in family dynamics. My wife left home at 17, never to return other than for visits.

I'm glad my mother-in-law didn't live to see this junkie illiterate anti-science brat come to power in this role. She, like all sane Americans, would have been horrified.

I, of course, am horrified, as I know you are as well.