Doctors advise patients to curtail physical activities and take rest periods during the day, including during working hours. It is often accompanied by decreased muscle endurance during activities. The main symptoms of PPS are new progressive muscle weakness that gradually worsens, together with severe fatigue and pain in muscles and joints. Stewart said he was tempted to carry a weapon on his long journey in Nepal or Afghanistan - he chronicles in his book how he was shot at - but in the end he was pleased he didn't because he believes talking and politeness can solve most any problem.Up to 20 million polio survivors around the world face the threat of new disabilities 15 to 40 years after their original illness, which could leave them using wheelchairs or ventilators for the rest of their lives, says a new report from the March of Dimes.Ī major problem confronting millions of polio survivors is that too few doctors, in both industrial and developing countries, recognize this slow moving and little understood secondary illness, called post-polio syndrome (PPS). There is not just one way to be human," Nolan said.
He can tell his grandchildren and say to people with authority: 'I have seen many of the thousands of ways people can be human.' We are an amazingly diverse species. "What is he going to get out of this? He's going to learn a lot about human diversity. Riall Nolan, a professor of anthropology at Purdue University who has lived and worked in Senegal, Tunisia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea, called Salopek's trip extraordinary and "incredibly ambitious." He said he hopes Salopek has the physical and mental stamina to finish. "While this is a major, major undertaking, by my standards it's not entirely out of character," he said.
His wife may join him for parts of the walk. Salopek says his family has been "tremendously supportive" of his long journey. Long days of endless walking leave you tired, hungry and wanting solitude, but Stewart said the best hours of Salopek's journey will not be during daylight, but in the evening hours around a dinner table or fireplace. Stewart's advice to Salopek is that he find people to be with at night. "For me the real great thing about this kind of journey is that we live in a world which is very focused on destinations, a city or a tourist site, which ignores 99 percent of the country." It forced you to spend nights in village homes," said Stewart, who spends six weeks every year walking through his political district. It forced you to stop every 20 or 25 miles. "The best thing about it for me was simply that it gave me access to people and communities. Rory Stewart, now a British parliamentarian, walked across Iran, Pakistan, Nepal, and then circled back to post-Taliban Afghanistan to walk from Herat to Kabul, a journey chronicled in the 2005 book "The Places In Between." Stewart's walk took 21 months. Though Salopek's planned walk may be among the longest in modern times - Guinness World Records doesn't track "longest walk" because such a feat can't be standardized - such long, investigative walks have been done before.
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