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09-18-2008, 11:59 AM
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Iron Lung
oh my god I have been reading about this...
it is just unreal that people had to live in these things, if they wanted to stay alive... how horrible! 
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09-18-2008, 12:21 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung
I would be freakin the F out man...I am super clostro...I think I would rather die...Yeek...
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09-18-2008, 12:57 PM
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I believe Mia Farrow was on one as a child when she contracted polio.
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09-18-2008, 12:59 PM
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I used to take care of a lady that had polio when she was a child...She lost one of her legs below the knee and her other little leg was a shriveled mess...Thank good golly gosh they got rid of that junk...
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09-18-2008, 01:00 PM
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Wasn't it just last year that a woman died...power failure, backup generator didn't work, and she lost power to her iron lung?!? I'll try to google that if I get a chance. Work keeps interrupting me! What a horrible way to go...
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09-18-2008, 01:03 PM
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09-18-2008, 01:36 PM
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Here it is. She was quite a woman, it seems. How sad.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/iro....ap/index.html
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09-18-2008, 01:51 PM
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I remember reading about that poor woman. I think I read about it here. I wonder why she wanted to be in the iron lung and not a ventilator? I guess in the iron lung you can still talk while on a vent you have a tube down your throat.
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09-18-2008, 01:55 PM
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oh man how sad...
I dont know but she must have been a very stong woman to want to live like that...I know I would not want to live like that at all...
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09-18-2008, 02:08 PM
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She had some sort of deformity that didn't let her get the new technology. She had to stay in the Iron Lung. Triple sad for her.
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09-18-2008, 03:30 PM
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The new ventilators do not seem to work on these people. It's not their lungs that are the problem, it's that the chest muscles are paralyzed. The iron lung works with air pressure to force the air into and out of the lungs. I vaguely remember the polio scare in the 50's, and these iron lungs were a huge scary thing to me when I saw pictures of them. I never forgot it.
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09-23-2008, 06:21 PM
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http://www.findadeath.com/forum/show...ight=iron+lung
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09-23-2008, 08:10 PM
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bunny, Auntie Kat thinks you need some fresh air.
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11-04-2009, 06:10 PM
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Dead After 60 Years In Iron Lung
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11-04-2009, 07:29 PM
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My neighbor owns a moving company-the local hospital was moving to a new place. He said when they were moving everything out-there was an old giant iron lung.
I think he said it was going to be taken to a museum.
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11-04-2009, 07:50 PM
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It's still amazing to me how these diseases that terrified a generation or so ago have basically been eliminated which gets one of my rare bows to medical science..no offense to anyone in the medical field. Dipthrea (?), polio, typhus, the list goes on. And now everyone is running around in a panic because of H1N1. Get a grip people!
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11-05-2009, 12:40 AM
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I am trying to understand how someone that is in an iron lung, could actually die from the power outage? These things had a manually operated diaphragm for when power was out, or if the thing needed to be serviced. It was a manual hand lever, sort of like the old time hand water pumps. The action of the manual handle, operated the same internal diaphragm as the electrical motor. That is why it is hard to understand about someone dying in one because lack of electricity. If the patient were there, totally ALONE, with no one else there, then I could see this possibly becoming a fatal issue, but from the reports, it does not sound like this person was alone when the power went out??? Carrera.
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11-05-2009, 09:25 AM
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I was bone idle as a kid. My mother used to tell me that I would never work, even in an iron lung. I informed her that if I was in an iron lung, I would not have to work, it would do the work for me.
I count 3 wooden spoons broken over my head as a kid for 'insolence' over this one.
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11-05-2009, 09:45 AM
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11-05-2009, 11:45 PM
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http://www.opacity.us/image2691_iron_lungs.htm
I love Opacity. An old find! This one was made out of wood: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lulatahula/tags/ironlung/ I would be so claustrophobic.
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11-06-2009, 05:57 PM
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I know someone whom lived in an iron lung due to his having caught polio. I also know his former wife, one of their kids (a son) and the daughter in law. This guy was ultra nice, never depressed about the hand that life dealt him. He was always happy to have visitors. Man he could sure chat up a storm, and I thought I was bad. Hehe.
His iron lung would rock up and down to help blood circulation. This thing was huge it seemed. Never phased me though. All I saw was him, not that iron lung. He passed away about 10 years ago I think. Sweet man he was.
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11-06-2009, 06:30 PM
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Alan Alda as a child had Polio.
Not sure if he was ever in a iron lung.
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11-06-2009, 07:08 PM
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Okay, my question...... if they have to lay in this thing for years on end... how do they not develop bed sores? I would think from laying in the same position they would..... I know when I worked in a nursing home, we had to turn our patients every 2 hours (those who couldnt move on their own)
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11-08-2009, 07:01 AM
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"You're gonna be wearing an iron lung when I'm through with you, Pinhead." - Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob SquarePants.
Sorry, couldn't resist. =P
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