This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ... - NPR
Oct 25, 2021 · Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights.
Martha Lillard - Wikipedia
Martha Ann Lillard [1] (born June 8, 1948) is an American polio survivor who is still living in an iron lung. After Paul Alexander's death, she became the last known person to still live in an iron …
60 years in an iron lung: US polio survivor worries about ... - NBC News
Nov 30, 2013 · Martha Ann Lillard, now 65, has spent most of the past six decades inside an 800-pound machine that helps her breathe. News this month that at least 13 children have been …
Texas Man Who Lived 70 Years in an Iron Lung ... - Smithsonian Magazine
Mar 13, 2024 · Before his death, Alexander was thought to be one of only two Americans who still needed an iron lung. The other iron lung user, Martha Lillard, was diagnosed with polio in …
Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron …
Oct 25, 2021 · She spent six months in the hospital, where she was put in a giant metal tank — a ventilator informally called an iron lung — to help her breathe. To this day, Lillard is one of the …
73-Year-Old Martha Is One Of The Last Relying On Iron Lung From Polio …
Nov 5, 2021 · Today, with polio gone, the iron lung is considered obsolete, and that presented a unique problem for Lillard; her original ventilator needed replacing in the ‘90s, and she needed …
The Last of the Iron Lungs - Polio Network
Dec 1, 2023 · “Martha Lillard spends half of every day with her body encapsulated in a half-century old machine that forces her to breathe. Only her head sticks out of the end of the …
The Last of the Iron Lungs - Gizmodo
Nov 20, 2017 · Martha Lillard spends half of every day with her body encapsulated in a half-century old machine that forces her to breathe. Only her head sticks out of the end of the …
Man in an iron lung since age 6 dies at 78 : NPR
Mar 13, 2024 · At least one other American was known to be relying on an iron lung in recent years: Martha Lillard, who contracted polio one year after Alexander. Both of them were able …
What is the iron lung that kept 'Polio Paul' alive for more than 70 ...
Mar 13, 2024 · Martha Lillard has been inside her iron lung since the age of five. Despite spending seven decades in her machine and saying it’s at times like “being buried alive,” …