The Man in an Iron Lung (A Polio Survivor's Story)
health May 22nd. 2025, 4:21pmPaul survived polio in the 1950’s and has used an iron lung to breathe ever since. He would go on to college, while moving his iron lung into a dorm room, and eventually became a lawyer. Paul wants others to know that you just have to keep fighting because miracles can happen.
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For 36 years, Mona Randolph, 82, slept six nights per week in a 75-year-old, 700-pound and 6-foot-long iron machine. She couldn’t breathe without it. Update: She passed away on February 18,. 2019.
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