Ridgway resident Joan Chismire stands next to the iron lung that saved her motherâs life nearly 80 years ago. Businessman and entrepreneur Larry David found the medical device that helped polio patients breathe wasting away in a South Dakota construction yard nearly a decade ago. He bought, refurbished and delivered it to Chismire last weekend.
Breathing new life into a relic
For 30 years, the long, heavy metal cylinder wasted away.
It was the first tank respirator used in South Dakota, purchased with funds raised by a l...
