A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the age of 78.
TexasMan lying in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio. It is unclear if this is specifically Paul Alexander. – A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life fromPaul Alexander died Monday at a Dallas hospital, said Daniel Spinks, a longtime friend. He said Alexander had recently been hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19 but did not know the cause of death.
Spinks said that Alexander had learned how to “gulp air down his lungs" in order to be out of the iron lung for part of the day. Using a stick in his mouth, Alexander could type on a computer and answer the phone, Spinks said. “There were a couple of close calls when his lung would break and I would rush out there and we would have to do some repairs on it," Spinks said.
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