Revised: Iron Lung : A True Life Story

--> Revised: Iron Lung : A True Life Story

What does it seem like to live in an iron lung for over three decades? That was the lot of my friend as you will see in this story.

"Comfort don't ever leave me," she says to me as she struggles on her death bed. I hold her hands, trying to fight away tears from my eyes. Her struggle now becomes weaker and weaker. And then drawing a deep long breath, her eyes fixed on my face, she dies. The hospital attendants wheeled her away to the morgue. And I thought that the world had ended.

I was saddled with the task of breaking this news to her family of three. When I arrived, Job her husband had already seen it from my countenance.

"Is she dead?" was all that he managed to ask. I nodded in affirmation, and everyone burst into tears.

The news of Hope's death spread quickly. She was not a princess. But even the heavens shook on the day that she passed on. Soon her Hollywood neighbors and the newsmen start pouring in. And before long the death of the woman who survived 37 years lying flat on her back in an iron lung