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How I Became A Human Being

A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence

Mark O'Brien March 20, 2003
University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN #978-0299184308

Copyright: 2003 - University of Wisconsin Press
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September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O’Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life.
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2003

Courtesy: Steve Glazer
    

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