Last American polio patient using iron lung dies at 78
She was five when her neck stiffened, her throat burned, and the world narrowed to a hospital ceiling and the hiss of a steel cylinder. Doctors said she wouldn’t live past 20. She answered by teaching herself to breathe, finishing school through an intercom, writing songs and poems, loving her beagles, and building a life
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