314 Comments Posted by Claudia

Or could that be a place for a large fan to help circulate the air in the building. There are not usually windows in operating/delivery rooms.

I agree with flushed. When it was time to remodel the ER we told the architects exactly what we wanted. Even drew them a little diagram. So what did we get. Absolutely nothing that we asked for. This would been in the mid 80's. So frustrating.

And there is nothing that kills Kudzu. Not freezing, not burning, not weed poison, not mowing. As grumpy ole artist says you can stand and watch it grow. It chokes out what ever else is growing. Nasty stuff

I agree with LPN red in a hospital means fire. And the light/bell above it would have flashed/rang to notify personal that were not in the station. My hospital would page Red Alert and a location and we had to go and close the patient's doors. We always told them it was a drill because we didn't know. Then when the fire trucks pulled up........

First thing that went through my mind was what fun it would be to roller skate in this attic.

This must have been an elegant place when it was a private home. Love the staircases. Thanks for a new gallery.

Thanks for this look at the Catacombs under Paris. An amazing place. Thanks for the history and all of the information you provided. I think this is my favorite gallery.

My brother lived in Georgetown DC in a row house. There was a very small park like area behind the home. The park like area was a mass grave from the 1918 flu epidemic. With diseases that are contagious even after the person dies, mass graves are the only choice. The city of Washington wanted to take the property and build on it. My brother and his partner joined the group fighting to prevent this. At the time of both of their deaths (1992) they had won the fight, but who knows what has been going on since then.

It was a timed treatment that another person administered. Gel was applied to the area and the microphone looking piece was laid on the area to be treated. The tech moved it around to treat the entire area. I remember having this done to my upper back. Sometimes it would cause a muscle twitch. Usual treatment lasted 15-20 minutes.

There was a problem with the tracing that was made by this type of machine. If you printed out a tape that showed a problem with the heart beat and you placed it in the chart for documentation for why you gave a specific medication or other treatment, it was great for about 6 months. Then the entire strip would fade away leaving just the paper. So much for documentation. My guess is they left it because it was an outdated piece of equipment.

These same tubes are in use today. For shorthand when we were drawing blood and needed another tube like this we called them "gunk". The tube is a vacuum. If you draw the patient's blood with a syringe and then insert the syringe needle into the tube it will suck out the exact amount of blood needed for this tube. When the blood is drawn directly from the arm into the tube the vacuum limits the amount of blood that goes into the tube. Pretty ingenious when you think about it.

I seem to remember from nursing school that to be called a tincture it had to contain alcohol ETOH. I think you nailed the use of the black metal item. Interesting finds in these rooms.

Free spirit, as a nurse I am familiar with the medical use of the term douche. But post a Google search I can tell you that it also means a shower of water. An additional definition is an obnoxious or contemptible person. I have a feeling the 4 douche rooms had showers in addition to the tub.

My mind pulled up "bastard amber" as one of the gels that could be used in the lamp. I spent a very short time working with a couple of the theater productions when I went to college. Always remember the name because it is so weird.

These are just plaster casts from molds. They really have very little monetary worth. But the destruction is hard to look at.