A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung: A Memoir
by
Martha Mason
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
After contracting polio as a young girl Martha Mason of tiny Lattimore, North Carolina, lived a record sixty-one of her seventy-one years in an iron lung until her death in 2009, but she never let the 800-pound cylinder define her. The subject of a documentary film, an NPR feature, an ABC News piece,...