Hours each day in an iron lung kept her breathing, her will to live kept her alive

BBC News reports on an interview with the sister of the last known polio patient in the US to use an iron lung—a conversation about a life shaped by extraordinary perseverance. The iron lung provided hours of life-sustaining breath each day, but according to her sister's account, it was the patient's will to live that proved equally vital to her survival.

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