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Dianne Odell (February 13, 1947 [1] – May 28, 2008) was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung. [2] She contracted bulbospinal polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life.
She contracted polio at six months. She managed to survive and routinely underwent physical therapy until she was eight years old. [1] In a 1990 interview, Templeton said that when she recovered, she got back 65 percent of movement in her left leg but only 10 percent in her right leg. As a result, she spent the rest of her life with a limp. [2]
Childhood polio deformed his feet restricting him indoors where he developed a love of reading. [75] H. Ramakrishnan: born 1941: Journalist and speaker on disabled rights. Ramakrishna was paralysed by polio, aged two, and walks with leg braces. [76] Jessie Sampter: 1883–1938 Zionist educator, poet and pioneer. She caught polio, aged thirteen ...
Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...
Martha Ann Lillard [1] (born June 8, 1948) is an American polio survivor who lives in an iron lung. After Paul Alexander 's death, she became the last known person to still live in an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was five years old.
For some people it's hard enough to just sit comfortable with one leg over the other -- and men especially. After Imgur user SickOfFeelingNumb posted the photo , hundreds of people began commenting.
Arnold Schwarzenegger rehashed an unbelievable story during his recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, admitting to Kelly Clarkson that he accidentally caused former first lady Barbara Bush ...
Lupino's major symptoms persisted for only a brief period of time, leaving her with minor problems in her leg and hand. She remained a supporter of causes to fight the disease, and Never Fear was released in 1949, the year with America's highest-ever recorded total of polio cases. [ 2 ]