I couldn’t find any figures, but I do know lots of them lived.
Some only used then for weeks or months, or only at night…
Some lived in them full time for years, but still recovered.
Other, whose paralysis didn’t go away, stayed in them till they died.
According to my search, the young woman in this picture recovered, and went on to become a nurse.
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A slightly older friend and neighbor of mine, who passed away in the early 2000s, was also in an iron lung back in the 1940s, and she, too, recovered from the paralysis, and went back to elementary school, in leg braces, and eventually became a nurse, with, she said, by then no sign of polio.
But she had later developed what’s called post-polio syndrome… something that happens possibly from overworking muscles in recovery… Her legs got so weak that when I knew her, she was wheelchair bound, after years of thinking she was okay
BTW… I was so happy when I realized the nurse in this picture was holding a mirror… First I thought it was a girl with two heads!
Probably on her way to work, that type of Post Box with multiple openings for Local and National destinations were normally found in business areas in London.
There’s another one with these two, barking and making “Angry” either side of some glass. Then the Corgi goes around the side, past the other dog, laps up some water, then goes back to the other side of the glass and playtime recommences.
Gocomics is getting more ridiculously restrictive: “Muricans” (even misspelled) is getting censored now.
Just like old times, they don’t tell you – the comment shows for you, but (literally) doesn’t count: The number of comments doesn’t go up.
But in the gifs accessible there:
LOL!
My sister sent me an interesting website that allows you to scroll down to the very depths of the ocean, passing the fish and other creatures at different depths. It takes awhile, but you can grab the slider and move down to the Challenger Deep if you get impatient. You’ll just miss some of the creatures and other facts along the way.
what’s wrong with MY toebeans?
Oh, that’s what they are!
See? I washed my paws as best as I could!!
This is some of why I love basset hounds – big noses, big toeses. Don’tcha just wanna reach out and grab a couple?
And scratch their ribs until their leg starts flopping. 🙂
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I get it now! There’s an elevator on the other side!
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One for Tigressy!
When presidents earned respect…
And … um .. . ex-Attorneys General…
Yeah, them too…
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Look! We’re being watched by a hill of beans…
Damn! Was that obvious to everyone else but me?
OMG! I remember all those TV shows about people in iron lungs when I was a kid. Did they recover or just die? :o(
The last person in an iron lung died in March 2024.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68555051
Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed from the neck down at the age of six in 1952, he survived until 2024.
OMG! That’s terrible…!
And after reading the story it’s both better and worse…
I couldn’t find any figures, but I do know lots of them lived.
Some only used then for weeks or months, or only at night…
Some lived in them full time for years, but still recovered.
Other, whose paralysis didn’t go away, stayed in them till they died.
According to my search, the young woman in this picture recovered, and went on to become a nurse.
…
A slightly older friend and neighbor of mine, who passed away in the early 2000s, was also in an iron lung back in the 1940s, and she, too, recovered from the paralysis, and went back to elementary school, in leg braces, and eventually became a nurse, with, she said, by then no sign of polio.
But she had later developed what’s called post-polio syndrome… something that happens possibly from overworking muscles in recovery… Her legs got so weak that when I knew her, she was wheelchair bound, after years of thinking she was okay
BTW… I was so happy when I realized the nurse in this picture was holding a mirror… First I thought it was a girl with two heads!
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The feather was to deflect buzz bombs…
Radar antenna.
They weren’t that big…
Still dressed properly for going out in public. Pride and upbringing.
Probably on her way to work, that type of Post Box with multiple openings for Local and National destinations were normally found in business areas in London.
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Planning the shower scene…
A.H. with the cast and crew of ‘To Catch A Thief’
Yeah, but mine was funnier!
oops…
What was all the fuss about?
All bark and no bite.
There’s another one with these two, barking and making “Angry” either side of some glass. Then the Corgi goes around the side, past the other dog, laps up some water, then goes back to the other side of the glass and playtime recommences.
I was going to mention that one.
I think maybe Alexikakos posted it… and there’s a chance I saved it.
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The assignment was to count in base two?
No.
Sure. The the error is obvious.
Exactly.
OH #$@^%$!
There are two “the’s” in the question as posed.
I feel like an idiot…
You’re in good company!
Somewhere there is a bird gazing upon this tableau and thinking “where do I start? I’m gonna have to call for backup.”
Susan called it yesterday.
Thanks… I was thinking that’s probaby why nighthawks posted it
(Before taxes…)
That’s a sharp knife!
And a very steady hand.
Wait, what – no cheese?
It’s true!
My ex-husband spent a few weeks, after our store was closed, working through a temp agency.
One job was in a big bank. Very tedious…. I don’t remember what it was called, but it involved comparing a lot of figures
He discovered a misplaced decimal point, and told his supervisor, who thanked him profusely and said he’d just saved the bank a lot of money.
A day or two later some higher-up called him, and said it was in the neighborhood of $1,500,000 and they were going to give him a bonus.
They gave him a check for $50, and a thank you card.
The check had to go through the temp agency, which kept a big percentage of it, because you can’t accept money outside their contract.
Luckily he had a sense of humor.
I always like these.
Thanks.
Interesting, but that AI voice has to be the creepiest thing I’ve heard in years!
So singsong, in such a weird accent, that I couldn’t listen after a couple of minutes. (I’ll feel bad if I find out that’s someone’s real voice.)
In that time, though, it was reading off wave heights, which were also shown in meters and feet on a graphic.
The graphic said Alaska got waves of .8 meters, or 2.65 feet… The voice said 5 to 8 centimeters.
In a colourised photograph taken in Miami Beach on 10th January 1944.
They were married at the time.
An unlikely match that could be said to have lasted a few years, as long as you don’t mean to the exact letter of the law.
He made several such unlikely matches, not that he married them all … and she pretty much made a career of it.
But at the time, they were a Hollywood golden couple.
The boy genius, grown up… in his fashion…. married, to depending on the source, the most or second most popular pin-up of American GIs in in WWII.
Gocomics is getting more ridiculously restrictive: “Muricans” (even misspelled) is getting censored now.
Just like old times, they don’t tell you – the comment shows for you, but (literally) doesn’t count: The number of comments doesn’t go up.
But in the gifs accessible there:
LOL!
The things we things we don’t think about; corporations and their founders (from today’s London “Daily Mail”)….
My sister sent me an interesting website that allows you to scroll down to the very depths of the ocean, passing the fish and other creatures at different depths. It takes awhile, but you can grab the slider and move down to the Challenger Deep if you get impatient. You’ll just miss some of the creatures and other facts along the way.
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c6845d78644b3ab6fc52
What a ride!!!
Thank you!
But better use https://neal.fun/deep-sea
WOW! I just wish you could click on all the creatures and get more information!