THE MAN IN THE IRON LUNG

Thank you to Rotarian Mark Jolivette for sharing the following.....

 

This interesting, gripping, sad yet triumphant article from the British paper Guardian, via AppleNews, tells about the man in the iron lung in Texas, our only one left in the US.

 

The long read: When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he did not expect to find himself threatened by another

Read in The Guardian: LINK