“Small Steps” by Peg Kehret is a wonderful book. Small Steps is a story about the the life of a young girl living with three different types of polio her name was Peg Kehret. The day of her diagnosis was an unusual day she had not been feeling well all day.  About lunchtime she was going to put her books in her locker when suddenly she clasped in the hallway. When she went home for lunch her mom realized she had a high temperature and sent her right off to bed. That afternoon the doctor came by there house and told Pegs parents to take her to the hospital right away. At the hospital they realized that peg had spinal polio and that she would need to go to the university hospital in Minnesota. At the university hospital in Minnesota she was diagnosed with two new types of polio respiratory and Bulbar . Bulbar polio was one of the least common types of polio there were. Peg would not eat anything because her condition caused thing she drank to come out of her nose and did not want any food the only thing she did want was a chocolate milkshake and the nurse strongly disagreed with it because she could possibly choke and die but her parents knew that if she didn't eat anything soon she would die anyway so they went and got her a milkshake when they came back to give it to her it went down fine and her temperature dropped so that milkshake could have saved her life. From then on anytime she asked for a milkshake she was given one even though on her chart it said no dairy. She gradually moved from not moving to a wheelchair to  walking sticks to nothing at all. She later met one her favorite doctors doctor bevis he painted her toe nails for her while she was being treated for polio. Right before she left to go back to the shelter arms hospital in minneapolis she promised she would come back and walk for him and that she did. On the day she was released to go home her mother came and picked her up at the hospital and took her back to university hospital so that she could walk for dr. bevis when she got there she handed her mother her walking sticks and walked to the front desk and back and stood in front of dr. bevis. She then got to go home. She was allowed one visitor every day for fifteen minutes. She said in her book it wasn't the same they all wanted to know the same thing. What it's like to survive Polio.