TY - BOOK AU - Woods,Regina AU - Howse,Jennifer L. AU - Rogers,David E. AU - Rogers,David Ε. TI - Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (And How I Got Out of It) SN - 9780812215069 AV - RC181.U6 U1 - 362.1/96835/0092B 20 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Iron lung KW - Poliomyelits KW - Patients KW - Kentucky KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustration --; Foreword --; To the Reader: Beyond Anger --; 1. A Time Lost Forever --; 2. Breathing Better – For a Time --; 3. Another City, Another Hospital --; 4. I Get Wheels --; 5. Control --; 6. Life in Intensive Care --; 7. Mama --; 8. Heroes --; 9. Learning --; 10. Dying --; 11. I Decide to Live --; 12. The Card --; 13. Dreams --; 14. Church --; 15. Post-Polio Syndrome --; 16. People --; 17. Doing and Being --; 18. Caregivers --; 19. Faith Healing --; 20. Small Battles --; 21. Family --; 22. Summer --; 23. Mike --; 24. The Secret Self --; Afterword --; Appendix: About Poliomyelitis --; Illustrations --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Regina Woods, just weeks before her fourteenth birthday contracted polio. Within a few days, she was paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to breathe by herself. What is most profound about this book is that--while it is an account of catastrophic loss--there is so much triumph in it UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809329 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512809329 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512809329/original ER -