Woman Dies After 37 Years in Iron Lung
A 72-year-old La Crescenta woman who survived 37 years in an iron lung after being stricken by polio, has died.
Laurel Nisbet, credited by the “Guinness Book of World Records” as the longest survivor of that mechanical respirator, died Friday in a Los Angeles hospital following surgery.
She contracted polio in 1948 and was paralyzed from the neck down. Despite her paralysis she managed to oversee a household that included a husband and now-grown son and daughter.
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