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Paul Alexander was struck down by polio in 1952 and was left paralysed. He could only move his head, neck and mouth and almost died before doctors put him in an iron lung
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Paul Alexander, who was left paralysed after being struck down by polio in 1952, could only move his head, neck and mouth and almost died before doctors put him in an iron lung ....
A Texas man who has lived in a giant iron contraption for over 70 years due to Polio, shared what happens when the machine he relied on broke down. Paul Alexander wrote a memoir using a pen in his mouth ....
Crudely nicknamed 'Polio Paul,' Paul Alexander was crippled by polio at age six and spent the next seven decades living in an iron lung where he invented a new way to breathe - and got a dog as a reward ....