Brad Fuller’s earliest memories are of the inside of a hospital, an iron lung to help him breathe, and a nurse holding him in a mineral pool. Fuller contracted polio in 1952- just three years before the vaccine was available. He was lucky and he survived, left only with a weakened left leg and right arm.

Decades later he learned that his increased muscle weakness and bad balance were actually symptoms of post polio syndrome, a little researched condition that affects 25 - 40% of polio survivors.

I took photographs of Brad Fuller in his home in Asheville, NC.