I pumped one for 2 hours during a power outage in 1976.
Posted on 05/29/2008 12:48:16 AM PDT by Westlander
For almost 60 years, Dianne Odell lived inside a 7-foot-long metal tube, unable to breathe outside it but determined not to let it destroy her spirit.
Odell, 61, died Wednesday when a power failure shut off electricity to the tube and stopped the pump drawing air into her lungs.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
"We did everything we could do, but we couldn't keep her breathing," Beyer said. "Dianne had gotten a lot weaker over the past several months, and she just didn't have the strength to keep going."
Odell, who contracted polio when she was 3 years old, lived with her parents, Freeman and Geneva Odell, and their house was equipped with an emergency generator designed to fire up immediately in a power failure.
"But for some reason, it didn't come on," Beyer said.
Secularists see a not so perfect body and they want to destroy it. They may frame it with religious platitudes but that’s just a ruse. How many religious platitudes did we hear re: Terri from trolls? Too many. Disabled people can lead happy lives if they are given the chance. If they aren’t happy, that’s their problem but they all have a right to live.
Exactly.
I pumped one for 2 hours during a power outage in 1976.
Exactly.
Oops, it appears in the 2nd photo she was in an Emerson as well. I’m not sure if they all had the manual pump.
It says in the article they did attempt manual pumping with no results. My guess is the power and backup went out way before they reached her. A pretty painful way to die.
May she rest in peace.
I’ve seen dozens of Emerson Iron Lungs and the manual pump is an integral part of the machine. I’m not sure it would work at all if the manual handle were removed, since the same mechanism works the bellows whether the motor is running or it’s being operated manually.
If they did try to pump manually and it didn’t work, then there was a major failure of a straightforward system. I guess time has to be up sometime.
RIP
She was gone before they realized. It could take as little as 5-10 minutes.
“when a power failure shut off electricity to the tube and stopped the pump drawing air into her lungs.”
How sad, and to think a generator, even a small one, would have saved her.
And it still is continuing a day later. Now read #49. What planet from what universe are these people from?
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“The poster made a valid point”
The poster failed to read the article, and so was unaware that they *did* have a generator, rather than having been too cheap to spring for $1,000, as he said.
In these cases it is enough that you or I have read article.
Sounds to me like they went scrambling to start the generator after the failure. It did not sound like an automatic system with a transfer switch. In other words, it was a cheap system. I'm not sure what the amp draw is for the iron lung, but $1000 would have gone a long way to buying a UPS that would not need to be "started" if power was lost. If can protect the data on my computer from a power loss with a UPS and I'm sure the family loved her more than I love my computer.
“Sounds to me like they went scrambling to start the generator after the failure. It did not sound like an automatic system with a transfer switch.”
It was an automatic system with a transfer switch. The system didn’t work, as happens on planet Earth.
Hey ya babe a don’t look down..
I stand my ground.
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I pinged Salvation (she is still getting hip literally) but
Yes this is love of the gift of life.
Worthy Ping.
Please come see me.
I will share.
I don’t cook.
Don’t have time.
Then after a week with KV tell us all how you really feel.
That's why, when someone's life is at risk, you use a dual backup system with a fuel driven generator and a battery powered UPS. If tested regularly, the odds of dual failure on that type of system are miniscule. A small investment in design and equipment could have easily prevented this and made planet earth a better place.
Every time you say “they shoulda” and I say “they did,” you raise the bar.
If we continue, you’ll be saying they shoulda had their own, dedicated hydroelectric plant with nuclear power backup.
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