A fundraiser for his healthcare confirmed Alexander, of Dallas, Texas, passed away on Monday. Alexander spent a lifetime in the iron lung after contracting polio in 1952
A fundraiser for his healthcare confirmed Alexander, of Dallas, Texas, passed away on Monday without providing further details.
'After surviving polio as a child, he lived over 70 years inside of an iron lung. In this time Paul went to college, became a lawyer, and a published author.While efforts to produce vaccines effectively ended the epidemic in the western world by the latter half of the 20th century, polio remained one of the most deadly threats to children well into the 1950s.
Children who develop the disease later on are often less well prepared to fight it without having developed resistance, which can see polio enter a second, more aggressive stage, affecting the central nervous system. He pursued his dreams of becoming a trial lawyer, and represented clients in court in a three-piece suit and a modified wheelchair that held his paralysed body upright.
The ventilator, a large yellow metal box, requires patients to lie down inside, with the device fastened tightly around their neck.
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