43 Comments Posted by AuntMaymeMommy

For some reason this chair looks to me like it belongs in Invader Zim. What's on the walls off to the sides of the peeling paint? Looks like sconces to me.

The only people that were put in iron lungs were those whose paralysis caused them not to be able to breathe on thier own. The polio would affect the nerves in the spinal column. The parts of the body that were paralized were determined by which vertebrae were affected by the polio. My mother's polio paralyzed her from the waist down. One more vertebrae and she would have required an iron lung. I am sure there were problems with bed sores. I imagine they did everything they could to make the polio patients more comfortable. And yes, some people did get well enough to leave the iron lung. Although there are still a few people still using them today.

I am certainly grateful that there was a seclusion room for that guy. I was more or less on a ward for people with depression and bi-polar. They moved that guy to a ward for people with more difficult situations. Seclusion is definately not a bad thing. If it were not for the seclusion room a lot more people might have been hurt. The good part was they brought everyone ice cream when things settled down.

My mother had polio. She got it the year before Dr. Salk invented the polio vaccine. Polio was highly contagious. Those who had it had to be quarantined until the threat of passing on it on had passed. My mother still to this day walks on crutches. She never did require an iron lung. Her paralysis was one vertebrae below the one that would have caused her to use the iron lung.

It's not a barge.

Not all behaviour problems can be "scared straight".

I was hospitalized for depression. During the time I was there they brought in someone that was obviously very disturbed. He busted out a window and stabbed the guard in the eye with a shard of glass. He also used a large shard to cut the throat of the guard. I am more than glad there was a seclusion room to put that guy in. I was never so afraid in my life! The guard required many hours of surgery but he pulled through.

The something horrible that went wrong during birth was probably cerebral palsy. My daughter has it. She sometimes uses a walker although hers is much nicer than that. I think if I ever heard someone say something like that I would seriously have to restrian myself from hurting them.

Lynne is a professional. We aren't sure a professional what though! LOL

It reminds me of the couch in the Lizzie Borden house.

It pretty clearly looks like pipes to me.

Ah! That explains a lot!

That crazed mental patient at the bottom left really frightens me!

Oh, Lynne. If you look closely I am sure you will recognize someone!

They look to me like kitchen instruments. A meat cleaver, a chef's knief, a utility knife and two spreaders. Nothing particularly "illegal" about them. They do seem to be in a rather strange place though.