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Hettie Juanita Mejias de Gannes: sculptor, musician, optometrist, mother, grandmother and polio survivor, is as multifaceted as one of the rare flowers her son Antonio cultivates on their orchid farm.

Hettie got polio in her hometown of San Fernando, in the 1942 outbreak in Trinidad & Tobago.

She was seven years old.

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From 1941-42, there were 209 cases of polio on the island. Some children died and others were left partially paralyzed.

“We never had vaccination,” she reveals. Polio vaccines were not created until 1955 and 1961.

Internationally acclaimed Trinidadian sculptor Ralph Baney died last Tuesday at his Maryland, USA home.

Internationally acclaimed Trinidadian sculptor Ralph Baney died last Tuesday at his Maryland, USA home.

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“I had a high fever and was almost completely paralyzed. Luckily, my father was a medical doctor and he took care of me at home. My two sisters had to be boarded out to friends to avoid getting the disease. My father brought his peers from Port of Spain for their opinion, but it seemed as if I was doomed to die…”

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