Judy Heumann, a renowned activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, has died at age 75. He said she had been in the hospital a week and had heart issues that may have been the result of something known as post-polio syndrome, related to a childhood infection that was so severe that she spent several months in an iron lung and lost her ability to walk at age 2. She wasn’t ready to hear it at first after a lifetime of being told she needed to appear less disabled