A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media has died as he recounts his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning his law degree.
Paul Alexander died Monday in a hospital, said Daniel Spinks, a longtime friend Dallas. He added that Alexander was recently hospitalized after being diagnosed with Covid-19, but he did not know the reason Death.
Alexander was six years old when he began using the iron lung, a cylinder encasing his body where air pressure in the chamber forces air in and out of his lungs. In recent years, he has received millions of views on his account Tik Tok It’s called “Conversations with Paul.”
“He loved to laugh. He was just one of the shining stars in this world,” Spinks said.
Alexander’s death sparked global grief and widespread mourning on social media platforms, as his followers expressed their appreciation and respect for his courage and determination to achieve success, despite the health challenges he faced throughout his life.
Alexander told the Dallas Morning News in 2018 that he was supported by faith, and that what pushed him to succeed was his late parents, whom he described as “magical spirits” and “extraordinary spirits.”
“They just loved me,” he told the newspaper. “They said, ‘You can do anything.’ And I believed it,” he added.
The newspaper reported that Alexander was paralyzed from the neck down due to… poliomyelitisA plastic tool was inserted into his mouth to write emails and answer the phone.
Alexander earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Texas in 1978 and a law degree from the college in 1984.
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