Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia
WEBPaul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six.
Paul Alexander, polio survivor in iron lung for over 70 years, …
WEBMar 13, 2024 · Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was...
Paul Alexander: ‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years …
WEBMar 14, 2024 · Paul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his brother Philip...
The Man in an Iron Lung (A Polio Survivor's Story) - YouTube
WEBPaul survived polio in the 1950's and has used an iron lung to breathe ever since. He would go on to college, while moving his iron lung into a dorm room, an...
Paul Alexander, Polio Survivor Who Lived in Iron Lung for 72 …
WEBMar 13, 2024 · After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive.
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full - BBC
WEBPaul had survived a serious bout of polio, but had been left quadriplegic. After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his...
Paul Alexander: 'Man in the iron lung' dies at the age of 78
WEBMar 13, 2024 · The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down.
Meet longest surviving iron lung patient kept alive by a machine …
WEBMar 21, 2023 · It was the iron lungs ward, an overcrowded section of Parkland hospital cramped up with young polio survivors: little bodies trapped in big machines that kept them anchored to life. Some of the kids were crying, Paul recalls.
Polio survivor Paul Alexander, who lived for decades in an iron …
WEBMar 14, 2024 · Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, has died aged 78. His death was announced by his brother on Tuesday.
Paul Alexander - 'The Man in the Iron Lung' - dies after 70 years ...
WEBMar 14, 2024 · A polio survivor, who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years, has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander, widely known as "Polio Paul", contracted the viral disease in the summer of 1952 when he was six years old and was left paralysed from the neck down.