76-Year-Old Polio Survivor, Paralyzed Since Age 6, Reflects on Life as One of the Last Iron Lung Users: ‘I’ve Lived an Amazing Life’
Most people would not believe that one could live all his life inside a metal machine built in the 1950s – but Paul Alexander did it. For more than seven decades he slept, worked and dreamed inside the vintage of iron lungs, a relic from the forgotten era of medicine. How did the child almost …