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IMPORTANT INFORMATIONNEXT MEETING THURSDAY 3rd MAY 2012
We meet from 12.00 noon until 3.00 p.m. and following discussions with the Grange Centre we have been able to move back to the FIRST THURSDAY of each month. The full address and telephone number is:
The Grange Community Resource Centre Pilgrim drive is off Albert Street, which is off Grey Mare Lane (used to have a great market) turn down the side of the public house.
If you drive down Pilgrim Drive there is a small car park at the rear of the building
through the gates on the left. Leaving your car you will need to walk round the building to the main doors. But if you drive past Pilgrim Drive, along the front of the Grange Centre, you will see a gate at the end of the fence, this takes you to a large car park outside the main entrance.  Our group may hold interest for you, if you or somebody you know, contracted paralytic or non-paralytic polio as a child or adult, and have managed to lead an active productive life but now are experiencing new difficulties that are unrelated to ageing. A large proportion of polio survivors are experiencing new symptoms, such as unexplainable fatigue or pain and weakness similar to that as when they were first diagnosed, but are unable to find the advice and help they need.
Understandably because of the vaccine discovery, polio is in many ways now considered to be a ‘controlled’ and ‘obsolete’ disease. This has resulted in many GP’s and consultants being unfamiliar and unacquainted with the reasoning behind conditions with which they are presented by polio survivors and are ignorant of essential information.
The British Polio Fellowship is a charity formed in the 1930’s as an aid to the many thousands of people who survived the ravages of the frequent polio epidemics which played havoc throughout the UK until the discovery of vaccination. In union with them the Greater Manchester Polio Group was re-formed in 2003 in an effort to help members in Manchester and surrounding areas, who sought information concerning their condition and also enjoy a chat and a Coffee with other survivors who may be experiencing the same difficulties.
If you are interested in attending a meeting you will be made very welcome just call in at any meeting.
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