A woman who defies the laws of medicine, it is limited to an iron lung for nearly 60 years, died today after a power failure.
Dianne Odell was diagnosed with polio when she was 3 years old. Since then, Odell to 7 foot long metal pipe, which required as iron lung, failure herPower Tennessee kills woman in iron LungDate: 28  2008Jackson States TNUnited restricts breathing became known.

 There were scattered near the holidays because of Downed power lines. Odell family told The Associated Press that it would work, the total power emergency.

They also say the woman was 61 years old to continue progressively weaker in recent months and  not valid.  He had had several strokes in recent weeks.

Odell was spinal bulbar polio and was paralyzed child illness three years before the vaccine knitting. The case is more difficult. He left the paralyzed and unable to breathe on their own.

An iron lung is a machine of 750 pounds, with a cylindrical chamber with an airtight rubber seal in the neck.
Odell will be suspended on the back with only his head. Odell iron lung is similar to that of the United States during the polio epidemic in the 1950s, air from the lungs, then forced to resign accustomed.

Iron Lung by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, two researchers at Harvard University was created. Iron lung installed at Bellevue Hospital in New York in 1927.

A more recent study has introduced portable fans in the late '50s, but the spine Odell believed that he could use the portable device.

Post-Polio Health International in St. Louis said about 30 people use iron lungs in this country. Odell was believed that the greatest reservation.

Odell did not let physical limitations restrict their lives. He graduated from high school as a student housebound, even wrote a book for children entitled  lesser light.  It was named for the youngest stars in the sky, Blinky, who is trying to become a star would. It took 10 years, filling the book with a voice-activated computer.

Odell has said many times that people needed to Three F in life can work something ... Faith, family and friends.