{"id":2458,"date":"2020-06-11T21:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:36:41","slug":"shriners-hospitals-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/shriners-hospitals-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shriners Hospitals will always be my favorite charity #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shriners\"
Funny people doing serious work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I know I\u2019ve mentioned it before, but I was struck with polio when I was a baby. I understand that the epidemic was one of the last large polio epidemics and a record<\/a> for the residents of Sioux City, Iowa in 1952. Not a record I wanted to take part in, believe me!<\/p>\n

Mom said I\u2019d started walking at 9 months and had already been getting into things, when one morning she woke to my screams and I couldn\u2019t stand up in my crib.\u00a0 So many people were affected, they read the names of those admitted to the hospitals on the radio, which is how my grandparents heard that I\u2019d been admitted to St. Vincent\u2019s. No one could figure out how I\u2019d caught the virus. I was too young to go to the pools in town, and I never went anywhere without my mom or grandparents, none of whom got sick.<\/p>\n

\"Teenage
LOL, not me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was lucky\u2014I lived. And luckier still when Mom knew a man who was a Shriner. He sponsored me and got me into the program when I was old enough. We started taking the 275-mile trip to Minneapolis, which had the closest hospital every few months. When we moved to Alameda, CA, I went to the hospital in San Francisco, and later, when we moved to Virginia Beach, VA, we had the long trek to the hospital in Greenville, SC. But those trips were worth it! Through years of braces, surgery, and endless (it seemed!) physical therapy and nightly exercises, I was able to end my time with the Shrine group a teenager who could walk, dance, ride a bike, and do most of the things any teen could do. They worked a miracle, and they didn\u2019t charge a dime.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why\u2014with all the very worthy charities there are out there\u2014Shriners Hospitals for Children<\/a>\u00a0 will always be my favorite. And, they spend the money donated well. They\u2019re highly rated for using their donations where they\u2019re supposed to.<\/p>\n

Who do you routinely donate to?<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dee<\/a>
\nBurning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist: old letters put the lie to Sara\u2019s life. Now, mending her past mistakes while crossing burning bridges will be the hardest thing she\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n

One Woman Only<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I\u2019ve mentioned it before, but I was struck with polio when I was a baby. I understand that the epidemic was one of the last large polio epidemics and a record for the residents of Sioux City, Iowa in 1952. Not a record I wanted to take part in, believe me! Mom said … Continue reading “Shriners Hospitals will always be my favorite charity #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,3,1246,1],"tags":[351,353,1367,1364,344,342,1366,1365],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-general","category-mfrw","category-uncategorized","tag-childhood","tag-dee-s-knight-2","tag-epidemic","tag-handicapped","tag-polio","tag-shriners","tag-sioux-city","tag-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-DE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}