Polio survivor still on life support since 1952.

[the other mike]

Sad but inspiring.

 

[MarathonMike]

Please tell me that is a fake story.

 

[AMart]

Amazing story.

 

[irosie91]

Please tell me that is a fake story.

sorry-----could----long ago----like 50 years ago----I worked in a hospital
that had a patient in an iron lung -----for a few decades

 

[InstantOn]

When I was young, the beach around a little lake in the GI Bill neighborhood I grew up in would close in August out of fear of polio. As soon as the Salk vaccine came out, our parents had us vaccinated. We may have been guinea pigs for it. Later we also had the oral vaccine. This was a terrifying disease. I've known people who were partially paralyzed from it.

 

[JoeMoma]

The video shows him in a wheel chair when he was younger and disabled. So it appears he has not been in an iron lung for 50 years. He was able to go to college, get a law degree, and become a lawyer according to the video.

 

[the other mike]

When I was young, the beach around a little lake in the GI Bill neighborhood I grew up in would close in August out of fear of polio. As soon as the Salk vaccine came out, our parents had us vaccinated. We may have been guinea pigs for it. Later we also had the oral vaccine. This was a terrifying disease. I've known people who were partially paralyzed from it.

In the 60's I remember from 3rd to 5th grade the nurses came to our school
and I got at least 3 --polio, smallpox and measles....

But that was before manufacturing vaccines became big business.

 

[the other mike]

Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia

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