Overcoming a Lonely Childhood | My Time Inside an Iron Lung

Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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After contracting polio as a 9-year-old, Audrey King spent months in an iron lung and years in numerous English hospitals. Aside from the extreme difficulties of her physical paralysis, these experiences made it hard for her to build and maintain interpersonal relationships until adulthood. Audrey shares her moving account and how she has managed to overcome these challenges.
Thank you, Audrey, for sharing your story with us!
Interview by Meredith Sellers
Video by Jonah Stern
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1 июн 2023

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@Bildgesmythe Год назад

Thank God for immunizations. I'm 72, every school I attended had at least one child in braces. The baby one house down , died of measles. My uncle died of pneumonia, before antibiotics. I could go on. Be grateful for science.

@katrinamoore4624 2 месяца назад

Right. The common cold couldn't get bad and if it did you would have one foot in the grave and one out. Thanks for the advance in medicine and technology.

@MossyBear Год назад

BRING BACK THE CONTENT!

@kts8900 Год назад

What strikes me is how this is a story of care and community around isolation. Neighbors, family, who couldn't visit still sending gifts or helping.

@tadcooper9733 Год назад

We must remember to never let anyone go through this or experiences like it again, if we can help it.

@sharendonnelly7770 Год назад

Dear sweet Audrey, your life has been so affected, yet you overcame. Do know there are others that have suffered and endured, as you have, from physical processes beyond your control, myself among them. Strength isn't in the body, it is in the mind, and you are a very strong woman, indeed.

@edstella Год назад

What a wonderful and intimate little talk from Audrey King. I love that she didn't pick very typical stories to tell and it's clear that that time in the Iron Lung and the day-to-day activities really stuck with her. When she tells her stories, it really brings me back to being a child myself-- It has that wonderful indelible touch of innocence and that childlike imagination and thought process that no matter how much we try to grasp onto, we lose as we age. She remembers and recounts it so well. I am certainly glad polio rates are down by 99% according to the WHO and I am thankful and humbled that King decided to share her experience.

@cinderellaashtray6165 Год назад

When I was a toddler my neighbor would babysit me, her name was Melinda. She and her mother had both survived polio. Melinda wore leg braces, I remember when the curtains in the kitchen caught fire and she fell to the floor trying to put it out, trying to get up. Lois was in a room, in a bed, with pullies and everything, paralyzed from the neck down. I remember learning about death when she died.

@edithaviland8461 Месяц назад

😢

@fuzzyizmit Год назад

Bring back the old content! Keep what makes the Mutter the Mutter!

@oneseeker2 Год назад

What a horrific terrible experience for everyone. Such a lovely story about falling in love. You were a beautiful child!

@james_baker Год назад

wow. Audrey, you have a lot of heart.

@darkangelprincess101 Год назад

This made me cry.

@cecilyerker Год назад

God bless you Audrey. It must have been so incredibly hard. Look at how far you came!

@corvuscrux Год назад

Where's Momento Mütter? And the rest of your videos?

@ZoeKitten84 Год назад

They are updating their catalog while they are applying for a museum thing (I think) but they said most videos will return once gone over a quality review!

@corvuscrux Год назад

@@ZoeKitten84 that's mostly bullshit jsyk. They're in violation of their grant terms currently. They've been feeding everyone pure crap.

@bbkiki8480 Год назад

They’re basically getting rid of everything with human remains in the museum. They’re also deleting videos containing human remains. Does not make sense at all. I do not support the direction the museum is headed in.

@NaomiJameston Год назад

I read on tumblr that the ceo of the college is trying to shut the museum down.

@corvuscrux Год назад

@@NaomiJameston unfortunately that appears to be accurate.

@fortymillioncoins9066 10 месяцев назад

Fantastic achievements! Well done!

@madface6442 Год назад

Irons and Quinn need to resign. Stop deleting these comments like you did with all the other online content. Shame on you.

@oneseeker2 Год назад

I remember when I got the polio vaccine, sugar cube . Elementary School.

@BlackBerryBabe12 Год назад

The MUTTER NEEDS HELP! PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION to keep the Mutter as it is!!

@Bildgesmythe Год назад

Why doesn't this channel have millions of subscribers!?

@edithaviland8461 Месяц назад

Wow

@VoidHalo 11 месяцев назад

WARNING: There is an EXTREMELY loud and jarring noise which occurs at 5:00. I suggest you briefly mute the video by pressing "m" (you can unmute by pressing m again). I don't normally care, but this is very startling and comes out of nowhere. It's just some random technical glitch that sounds like a horribly screeching. Very unnerving in the middle of the night. Like one of those old jumpscare videos minus the dumb picture, now that I think about it. Only, not purposeful (I hope).

@thebewitchinghour831 4 месяца назад

It's some kind of suction with her breathing mechanism. You can hear throughout the whole video that she's on some kind of assisted breather.

@ametatsu 11 месяцев назад

Get rid of the terrible new management!

@willhouse Год назад

"OVERCOMING" DISABILITIES IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN THE FOCUS OF THE MÜTTER MUSEUM. This channel used to be a wonderful respository of highly respectful & genuinely fascinating stories about people who *didn't* overcome their disabilities. Coating your content with sugary themes only serves to enforce the disastrous notion that the lives of severely disabled people can be safely ignored & hidden from public view. *Hiding the Mütter's earlier content is a tragedy.*

@corvuscrux Год назад

I find it very odd that youre happy to like comments that dont have any criticism against the current Mütter leadership... But you're totally fine taking our tax dollars for exhibits you unilaterally take down. Are you giving back that money??? Or???

@MiniMuon Год назад

I have a feeling you don't know how exhibits and fundings works in long term. Education, science, healthcare is the best thing to put your taxes in, infrastructure, safety and so on. You don't go buy a Tesla and ask back your tax money, why is that?

@corvuscrux Год назад

@@MiniMuon you're hilarious. You have no idea what my background is or what I do every day. I know damn well how this works. I also know VERY well the stipulations of their grant funding for Momento Mütter... That is the grant funding I'm talking about. The grant office was very receptive to my emails and incredibly concerned to find out all of these shenanigans were going on. Turns out I'm not even the first person to notify them. Good try tho.