The iron lung is so old that when Brady brought it into his workshop to repair, his younger staff had no idea what it was. “When we first brought the tube into the shop, one of my younger employees asked me what I was doing with these smoker grills,” he said.
Tragically, it wasn’t just Paul’s lungs that were ravaged by polio. He was also paralyzed from the neck downwards. But despite his traumatic start in life, he never let his condition hold him back and achieved many of his dreams.
He became a trial lawyer and is currently in the process of writing a book. Until his condition deteriorated, he was able to attend trails using a wheelchair and is writing his memoir using a pen in his mouth.
Paul’s 2015 plea for help is featured below:
“When I transferred to the University of Texas, they were horrified to think that I was going to bring my iron lung down, but I did, and I put it in the dorm, and I lived in the dorm with my iron lung,” Paul revealed.
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