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Looks a little like the house my best friend used to live in when we were teens - but I don't remember the side porch. Still, pretty close. They were nice houses in a nice setting.

So strange! I used to live there as a kid - in a doctors housing apartment building. We moved out in 1969. The first day of school the bus came to pick me up after having picked up all the other kids on the rout . The kids were screeming and carrying on about being taken to the nut house. After that, the bus driver picked me up first and dropped me off last.
The forest was a wonderful piece of wilderness in the middle of Long Island. Acres and acres of pine forest with thick undergrowth and little intrusion by man. I imagine it's the way central Long Island used to be when Indians roamed freely. I still have very fond memories of running on deer trails through the woods with my dog, riding my bike through the woods to get to civilization and the public Library, our neighbors hunting (and eating) rabbits with bow and arrow (and car - lol).
The building we lived in was a long, 3 story building set off all by itself from the rest of the hospital We had to drive to get to the hospital, or to visit friends in the stand alone doctors housing section. The stand alone doctors houses had very nice brick houses and I'm surprised if these are really abandoned instead of being rented out or sold to private people. Seems a waste. They sure looked and seemed solid. I remember trick or treating around there one year. Sure got a haul!

Hey come visit my site.

You can see me now and then in the drop down box upper right under "mars".
My art is there too.

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Christie, The iron lung is not painful if the pressures are adjusted right. Your friend's must not have been. There is no need for any positive pressure, and the negative pressure is just like natural breathing. The noise is not much if the lung is running right.

I sleep in one and have for 53 years.

Here's my site:
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Stephen, to me, the vent like Chris Reeve used is just asking for an infection coz it blows air into your lungs through hoses which can't ever be completely clean. in my case, the forced air causes asthma. So I still sleep in the iron lung.

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You can see me here by viewing my photos under "Mars" in the upper right drop down box.

Sure hope they don't trash these lungs!
There are some of us out here still using them and we need parts!!!

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Click drop down box on my site in the upper right and you can see me in my iron lung at age 5. I still sleep in one, but the one I have now is like these pictured here. It's an Emerson.

I am still sleeping in one of these!

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See the drop down box upper right and choose "Mars" then "view photos" ;)

Bobby, I still sleep in an iron lung.
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Choose the drop down box upper right and choose"mars" and the "view photos". I think my pic of me in the lung is there.

My father made big contributions to the March of Dimes so the lung I had was paid for many times over. They were manufactured by both Drinker Collins in Massachusetts and by Emerson who designed the Emerson tank which I have now.Mr. Emerson's sons, Will and George, now run the Emersons company and they market inexsufflatorsa machine that helps those who can't cough well).

As for the weight, my father easily loaded my respirator into a trailer we had for traveling. It had a wench in it, and he would crank that and it was soon loaded. On the back of the trailer he had painted"Have Iron Lung Can Travel". We got a lot of waves and honks from passing cars as we vacationed!

You do need to have a 36" doort o get the lung into a room and the room needs to be fairly large because the respirator is about 14' when opened.

My pic is on my blog along with my art and friends.

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Choose "art" or "mars" in the drop down box upper right and then "view photos" and you can see me and my art.

Henry I will send you an email. I sure hope these lungs pictured here are not going to be destroyed because Respironics and many private citizens need parts from lungs badly now.

still, i can never get over those cool/sinister looking locking mechanisims...

My apologies ladies.... I'm a Bloom fan..

omg, imagine having an itch...that would be torture

wow, I almost spilled my cream soda when I figured out what this was... Mr. Motts, you are truely my hero!

*bows in submission to the great omnipotent Motts and his kick a$$ photography skils*

Love the blue, Motts, love the blue.