60 years without traffic Bashny.Net

She managed to finish high school, several distance learning courses at the university and wrote a children's book «Blinky, Less Light», which has sold one hundred thousand copies. In May 1987, the University Freed Hardman awarded her an honorary doctorate in psychology.





Diane Odell from Tennessee lived in a metal box almost all his life - three years old girl fell ill with polio and to save her life and to provide breathing, Diana was placed in the so-called "Iron lung" - a metal tank about two meters in length and weighing 340 kg. Above his head hung a mirror of Diana, in order to enable it to observe what is happening around her.

In this position, Diane Odell spent almost sixty years (up to twenty years, it could be out of the unit up to three hours a day), failing to finish school, several distance learning courses at the university and wrote a children's book «Blinky, Less Light», which was sold an edition of one hundred thousand copies. In May 1987, the University Freed Hardman awarded her an honorary doctorate in psychology.

Today, at age 61, Diana died - in the power network of the house where she lived, there was a failure, and start the backup generator failed.

P.S. The unit "iron lungs" for mechanical ventilation was used in the US until the mid 50's. At the time, Diana was not able to upgrade to a more modern portable devices Ventilation - its spine was deformed with time and she lost the ability to move.