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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Rosie Blunt

    'I was born while my mother was in an iron lung' (opens the original)

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    In 1956, Elizabeth Mennell was 32 with an impressive career in the foreign office. She loved the outdoors, especially hiking and swimming, and she was also five months pregnant with her second child. Then one day, she caught polio. She was paralysed and stayed in hospital for three years, much of which was spent in an iron lung - a horizontal metal cylinder that patients would lie inside to help them breathe. Elizabeth's daughter, Susan Mennell, who is now 70 and from Bookham in Surrey, said her

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