Paul Alexander, a 76-year-old who’s spent most of his life in an iron lung, shows us there are no real limits but the ones we set.
When Paul was around six, he came home one day and told his mom he didn’t feel good. Up till then, he was just an ordinary, lively kid who loved playing with others. “Oh my God, not my son,” he remembered his mom saying.
He was too young to get that he’d caught polio, a nasty virus that can damage nerves, cause paralysis, breathing trouble, and even death in bad cases. Years later, some who seemed cured as kids can get post-polio syndrome, with new muscle pain and weakness.