Capuchin monkeys are being trained to help quadriplegics with household chores, fetching and carrying. As I watch the television special about their service, I remember that a little monkey helped with my polio rehabilitation, too, more than forty years ago.

    The spring of age four and home from the hospital a few weeks, my days were pretty dull. The hospital bed my parents had rented had railing sides like an oversized crib ......