The man in the iron lung

The man in the iron lung

When Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas was just six years old, he was suddenly stricken with polio — along with some 60,000 other American children that year alone. Alexander almost died before quickly being moved into a life-saving steel ventilator, better known as an iron lung. And to this very day, 70 years later, he remains inside that same device. 

However, Alexander has never considered himself a victim. Despite being totally confined to his iron lung, he got his law degree, worked as a practicing attorney, and even spent eight long years painstakingly writing his memoir with a pen held between his teeth.

See the photos and go inside the astonishing story of Paul Alexander, one of the last people on Earth still living in an iron lung

Paul Richard Alexander (born 1946) is an American lawyer and paralytic polio survivor. He is popularly known as one of the last people living in an iron lung after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six.

Alexander contracted polio at the age of six and was paralyzed for life, only able to move his head, neck, and mouth.

During a major U.S. outbreak of polio in the early 1950s, hundreds of children around Dallas, Texas, including Alexander, were taken to Parkland Hospital. There, children were treated in a ward of iron lungs. He almost died in the hospital before a doctor noticed he was not breathing and rushed him into an iron lung.[8] Beginning in 1954, with help from the March of Dimes and a physical therapist named Mrs. Sullivan, Alexander taught himself glossopharyngeal breathing which allowed him to leave the iron lung for gradually increasing periods of time. Alexander was one of Dallas Independent School District's first homeschooled students. He learned to memorize instead of taking notes. At 21, he graduated second in his class from W.W. Samuell High in 1967, becoming the first person to graduate from a Dallas high school without physically attending a class.

Alexander received a scholarship[5] to Southern Methodist University. He transferred to University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1978, then a Juris Doctor in 1984. He got a job teaching legal terminology to court stenographers at an Austin trade school before being admitted to the bar in 1986.

Alexander has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the person who has spent the longest amount of time living in an iron lung.

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