Kansas City polio survivor is one of last iron lung users in U.S.

I was working and I left college to get married and I got sick on the third day of work and I felt like I had the worst case of the flu in the world, the first thing I had in the whole thing, everything was extremely sensitive and I became weaker the next day no He couldn't walk and then the third father couldn't breathe well so they ran to the hospital, the doctors thought they were some encephalitis servants because this was 1956 and

polio

was about to disappear, most of the serious cases had occurred in his early fifties, but they realized that an old

iron

lung

was taken out of the basement.

This was st. Luke's Hospital and I was there for three months, probably 20 years after I had it, that's when I started having breathing problems, so I went back to the hospital and that time they decided I needed the

lung

to sleep. I don't know. believing that it was post-

polio

you will not contract the disease again but the small nerves that operate the lines here weaken is a real blow of character for me I was always very independent and I learned to depend like a heart for most of the work on your breathing en Your diaphragm does it and it gets very tired after all day of working your muscles and the lung just takes over the breathing when I'm in it, so we wake up to be in it and feel relief when we get out, it's like it you knew you are ready for this at night tired just go to sleep and in the morning you are ready to go out the fact that it is available in statistics it is so good for prevention it is a smart thing I think People are afraid to hear case stories the ones where people got polio anyway or some other terrible thing, but it's rare, it's worth taking that small risk just to let it rise again, yeah, Adem is well equipped.