Updated: October 12, 2018
Final Michigan Polio Network Board of directors
Gwen Dyc-Schwendenmann, Carl Fenner, Bruce E. Sachs, Bonnie Levitan,
Laura Barbour, Diane L. Dych-Sachs, Vera Hazel, Timothy P. Brown, Rick Kugel,
Virginia Brown, Michael Scharl, Dan Matakas (left to right)
Mike W.R. Davis, Janice Gross, Roger Gross (bottom left to right)
From Polio Perspectives, Vol 12 #2 1997
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In the news...
As a polio survivor in Britain who depended on a ventilator to breathe he tackled the problem of being tied to an unwieldy breathing machine, a tie that severely restricted his ability to move around about his environment.
So he made a way to break that tie. He was an innovator who in 1962 developed a method of putting a ventilator on a battery powered wheelchair.
Cavendish's story is told in the new movie Breathe that is hitting theaters this month.
Brian Tiburzi,
Executive Director
Post-Polio Health International
