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could you imagine what it would be like to live your entire life confined in a mechanical box one that's just big enough to fit your body into what if you couldn't move eat or even breathe without it sounds like a waking nightmare right well for paul richard alexander this isn't a bad dream but the stark reality of his life since 1952 paul has spent every waking moment trapped inside this machine but how could this possibly happen well to find out let's take a look at the life of a man who's been locked inside a machine for almost 70 years [Music] to understand paul's predicament first we need to understand polio the virus that paul contracted at the age of just six polio short for polio myelitis is a life-threatening disease that can infect a person's spinal cord in severe cases this causes paralysis where sufferers can't move parts of their body and become incredibly weak this terrify