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inkleberry
03-07-2006, 11:29 PM
How/where do you pee? Isn't it awfully boring? How long would polio patients usually stay in them? Weren't bedsores /circulation/ blood pooling/ muscle atrophy a problem? How would you wash an iron lung inhabitant?

Tell me about life in an iron lung.
astro
03-07-2006, 11:34 PM
'My life with an iron lung' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3182096.stm)
inkleberry
03-07-2006, 11:36 PM
Read it. Didn't answer questions. Sadness.