Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (And How I Got Out of It) / / Regina Woods.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Woods, Regina,
• MitwirkendeR: Howse, Jennifer L.,; Rogers, David E.,; Rogers, David Ε.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rogers, David E.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 13 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustration --; Foreword --; To the Reader: Beyond Anger --; 1. A Time Lost Forever --; 2. Breathing Better - For a Time --; 3. Another City, Another Hospital --; 4. I Get Wheels --; 5. Control --; 6. Life in Intensive Care --; 7. Mama --; 8. Heroes --; 9. Learning --; 10. Dying --; 11. I Decide to Live --; 12. The Card --; 13. Dreams --; 14. Church --; 15. Post-Polio Syndrome --; 16. People --; 17. Doing and Being --; 18. Caregivers --; 19. Faith Healing --; 20. Small Battles --; 21. Family --; 22. Summer --; 23. Mike --; 24. The Secret Self --; Afterword --; Appendix: About Poliomyelitis --; Illustrations --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809329; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809329
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Regina Woods.

Regina Woods, just weeks before her fourteenth birthday contracted polio. Within a few days, she was paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to breathe by herself. What is most profound about this book is that--while it is an account of catastrophic loss--there is so much triumph in it.