The Girl in the Iron Lung: The Dianne O'Dell Story

by Will Beyer

The Girl in the Iron Lung is the story of Dianne O'Dell, who was diagnosed with polio at the age of three and lived in an iron lung for 58 years until her death in 2008. She is noted as one of the longest-surviving victims of polio to have spent most of her life inside an iron lung, lying flat on her back for nearly six decades. Her entire world was the iron lung, but she adapted. She learned to write with her toes and loved to paint pictures. She...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195602767X
• ISBN13: 9781956027679
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Acclaim Press, Inc.
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"