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I can’t find the link now, but that chap who died a couple of years ago after living most of his life in an iron lung, had a similar story of being transported
by ljf 2y ago
I can’t find the link now, but that chap who died a couple of years ago after living most of his life in an iron lung, had a similar story of being transported home on the back of a flatbed truck with a generator running, if the power went out he suffocated. His mother slept by his bed and in the case of a power cut had to manually help him breathe until the power returned.
An amazing man and amazing he made it so far in life.
- ljf 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor... Quote: He spent eighteen months in the hospital. At discharge, his parents rented a portable generator and a truck to bring him and his iron lung home. Beginning in 1954, with help from the March of Dimes and a physical therapist named Mrs. Sullivan, Alexander taught himself glossopharyngeal breathing, which allowed him to leave the iron lung for gradually increasing periods of time.