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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1983
Page
17
Blanche and Ed Rudolph faced a life change with a seventh child Wilma born June 23 1940. The Rudolphs later moved to Clarksville Tennessee renting a Kellogg Street cottage. Four year old Wilma contracted a compound illness diagnosed as double pneumonia and scarlet fever.
The article recalls Wilma Rudolph’s recovery from paralysis with daily therapy guided by her parents Blanche and Ed Rudolph. They drove her 90 miles round trip to Meharry Medical College for heat and hydrotherapy, and the family helped massage her leg multiple times daily. Four years of therapy enabled her to relearn walking, wearing a reinforced high top shoe, and years later Rudolph became an Olympic gold medalist. The piece ends by hinting at further undisclosed details about her story.
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