Yeah, the sugar cube thing was the Sabin polio vaccine. My sister and brother had that. I don't remember if I did...? I didn't have the Salk shot...
I had already had polio; at 6, summer of 48. I remember very little - but two things: the spinal tap, I was a scrawny kid but there were at least two big orderlies holding me down. It really hurt. And I was paralyzed for a time, bent at the waist. The polio was in my lower back and affected nerves and muscles down the hip joints and into the legs. It was a fairly mild case and with a very strong immune system (still thankfully) I started 2nd grade on time. I beat it with very little problem and very few effects. Until, in my 60's I discovered all those things I thought were just getting older were a litany of symptoms of PPS: Post Polio Sequelae/syndrome.