“76-Year-Old Man, Paralyzed by Polio at Age 6, One of the Last to Use an Iron Lung: ‘My Life Is Incredible’”
Paul Alexander’s life was truly remarkable. Paralyzed by polio at just six years old, he spent most of his life inside an iron lung—a large, metal respirator invented in the 1920s to help patients breathe when their muscles could no longer do so on their own. Paul was one of the last people in the … Read more