After 51 years in iron lung, Dianne Odell knows how to inspire

AP Worldstream | February 21, 2002| | Copyright

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Dateline: JACKSON, Tennessee For most of her 54 years, Dianne Odell has lived lying flat on her back in a 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long), 750-pound (338-kilogram) iron lung that breathes for her.

Her lungs, along with the rest of her body, were paralyzed by polio at age 3. But her confinement to the massive respirator hasn't stopped her from graduating from high school, attending college and writing a book.

And, she doesn't complain unless pressed for an answer for what it is like to live in an iron lung. Odell will quickly say she is "always in pain," but then ...

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