How I Became a Human Being
O'Brien, Mark![How I Became a Human Being](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/449/44951504/CHSBZCOP0344951504.jpg)
September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life. "How I Became a Human Being" is Mark O Brien s account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from t...