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    • … of the Salk attenuated polio virus vaccine in 1959 at age 17. Designed to enhance immunity, the virus instead produced major paralysis, which required the boy’s removal to an iron lung and then to a series of rocking beds and mechanical devices to force air into his lungs…Now some 50 years …

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    • … of three I found myself in an iron lung unable to breath without it. After a year I was out of the iron lung and in therapy. It was a long road, but eventually I was getting around on leg braces and crutches. I had a seemingly normal childhood, attending public school, riding a specially modified …

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    • … in an iron lung thanks to polio. What an experience like that may do to you — assuming it doesn’t kill you — is radically alter your perspective and imbue you with a certain bravado and fearlessness, not to mention a sometimes trenchant honesty. Once you’ve been to hell and back, the things the rest …

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    • … to suffer with the disease. But what no one talks about is the poor iron lung manufacturers who have lost their livelihoods now that no one’s getting polio anymore. I mean, what else are they going to use that thing for? Managing “odine’s curse?” I’m not even sure that’s a real thing. 1) Pelican Pox …

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    • … polio was the terror that stalked the nation, when approaching standing water, say, would earn the harshest of parental rebukes. One of my oldest friends got it in ‘53 and has been crutching it for half a century; another acquaintance of mine spent most of his 49 years in an iron lung thanks to polio …

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    • … of anyone I know. She’s upbeat and sarcastic, silly and caring. She was a teacher and during the polio epidemic she wouldn’t get the vaccine until all of her students did, and as a result she developed polio and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Iron lung and all that. Of all the elderly people I know …

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    • reliance seen through the eyes of a crip Presley tells the story of his life in a wheelchair, a “crip” as he calls himself, when he fell from the teenage graces of an adult into the prison of an iron lung. Then he describes years of life, from reliance on caregivers, to his employment in an office, and so …

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    • … - and particularly it costs retirees a lot of unnecessary worry. Worry Number Three: When I was a polio patient in an iron lung, the medical prognosis for me was that I had a fighting chance of getting out of the iron lung. Alongside me were two friends Les and Bill. On them the prognosis was that they would …

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    • … The primitive respirators of the time saved his life. For months, an iron lung encased him like an oversize Tin Woodsman’s costume, doing the work his own muscles could not do. He was flat on his back, his world limited to what he could see in a small mirror affixed to the top of the machine. (With the mirror …

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    • … as a 14-year-old and had been using an iron lung every night and breathing machine attached to his wheelchair in the daytime. Using Roberts’ own words, Sauer narrated, “I contracted polio when I was 14. I had a serious fever, and within 24 hours, I was paralyzed and in an iron lung. Within earshot, my …




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