Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-22 | Page 13 | S. L. Paralysis Victim Conquers Malady after Game Fight with Aid of Iron Lung

I L L. Paralysis Victim Conquers Malady tAfter r Game Fight With Aid of Iron Lung L r S Ri S SS SSt t Pr S rw L S 'S 4 S L wk 4 S L S-S S t S w 4 1 HER GAMENESS AND DETERMINATION TO RECOVER WIN ADMIRATION Nurse Xane Peggy Terry and Mary Lether paralysis victim at general hospital t isS tether a girl whose eneSS h has made her a favor- favor ith attendants at Salt Lake hospital is s doing her aIling athing again now and now and oot S 1 uple of d days davs s 's a ago Miss brown rown haired and andS j S 23 ld was was' holding to life with the aid of an iron lung at atthe atthe atthe the hospital Looking back ck Tuesday on her experience Miss Lether an Infantile in infantile infantile in- in dec decided ded t the e experience was was not not a particularly particularly particularly par par- bad one But she is determined not to togo togo togo go back into the lung again Its It's t part of her determination to complete her recovery and overcome overcome overcome over over- come the effects of the dread dreadS S paralysis 1 I r dont don't want to talk lalk very ery much a about out it but but it it wasn't an unpleasant experience at all she said I really felt quite normal in the lung lIt It was comfortable and the b eathin was as so easy and natural nat nat- ural ral I didn't mind it a bitI bitI bit I began to breathe easily as soon soon soon- as I was put into the lungI lung I r was in there last Thursday and again last Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur day dav night and Sunday Did Miss Lether expect to go goback goback goback back into nto the lung Absolutely not she she an an- sw re Im tm not going back in again S S SS S Breathing Br naturally l y again Miss ether Lether JS' JS bright and cheerful cheerful cheer- cheer ful the fl flowers boo books s radio adio in n her rp room m. m She is isS S out of qua quarantine and able able to I enjoy vis visits ts her p parents i- i Mr and Lether North Twelfth West street Miss i r Lether was taken to the hospital four weeks ago ago paralyzed paralyzed paralyzed para para- from the waist down She has battled against spread of the paralysis to her arms and andis' andis is' is isable 5 able to use them Breathing became difficult last Thursday and the iron lung treatments began