24 Comments Posted by LST69

Hmm.. I spelled my own name wrong.

Lynne is da "person" tho, no matter how I spell my name.

RE; Lynne 01-06-06.

Repeat, while deep breathing, "I'm a kitten, You're a kitten"

Continue until urge to strike out is decreased.

***Got the Kitten thing from a Mike Myers interview***

It's kind of cool the way the head/foot of these beds is buried in the plaster dust, almost as if they were slowly sinking.

Or an evil "nemesis pan"!

Jude, now that you mention it, it really does.
Cool

Fantastic perspective and lighting.

F****** Awsome shot Motts.
That's what I love about your site, your eye for capturing stunning bits of architecture that may soon be lost, and sharing them with all of us.

Thank you.

NO! Lynne, you let out the BIG secret!

What's every one in health care going to do? *whining voice* How could you?

At least you left out the mandetory classes on depriving people of their dignity and...uh oh I said too much.

;-/

Lyric,
**10 from the east German judges, 10 from France, 10 from America, and 1.2 from all the soooo well informed perfect people, and 1000 from those who really know.**

I am speechless (If you have seen some of my posts you'll be surprised)!!

*Don't loose that soapbox, it's needed around here.*

Hey, isn't that where they performed public ECT so the staff could get a kick outta the "inmates" convulsions...


Sorry I don't really mean that, I just had a sarcastic moment...

Really, poor taste sorry :-(

Impressive as ever Motts

Great lighting, and contrast My favorite lonely chair.

*Stage whisper* Pssst...Lynne Lynne. *Okay she won't see me borrow her soap box.*


Again I most sincerely apologize for being long winded, but mattie and Nikki just pushed me over the edge.

First I'll touch on matt's survey. Well if you got your facts from the news/internet I'm sure it must be true hmmm...and ending your comment like you did man, come on. One must always keep in mind all the things Lynne says are 100% correct. Almost no facility can be inspected and found to not have any violations/deficiencies found. That is why we do those inspections, (I mean they) to look for a problem that needs to be corrected, and dealt with. Outside inspectors are there to dig deep, and find things staff or administrators may not see because they are too close to it. Most ALWAYS, I said always, that's right; The violations found are so...(I hate to say minor *scratches head stuck*)well so, umm not really that serious in the overall scheme of operation, and patient care. The violations that might be found could be things like dietary getting hit for not maintaining a perfect temperature of 187.45 degrees F on the steam table (Or whatever it's only an example..sheesh). The steam table at that facility might keep a perfect 186.5 degrees maybe because it's old. Now I'm pretty sure 180 degrees kills most all food borne bacteria, is this treating residents cruelly, callously, creating a nightmare environment within the facility... UMMM NOT! This is an (maybe poor) example of things that can end up on matties oh so accurate surveys. Before someone says it I will. Sometimes a facility does get found to have serious violations, and when they are, they are dealt with accordingly. Patient abuse is taken SOOOO seriously that IF..IF..it does occur, sometimes people who are only suspected, SUSPECTED mind you, of knowing it happened and did not report it, can face major disciplinary actions.

Now, please, please would all who comment about how hellish, and cruel the staff in these places were, "how could they have done that to those poor people?" remember this one tiny little itty bitty thing : THESE PLACES WERE STATE OF THE ART IN THE MID TO LATE 20TH Century OR WHATEVER!!! They were not about cruelty and torture. Those people were being treated with the most advanced techniques OF THAT TIME. The pictures that Mr. Motts provide for our perusal (Magnificently I must say) are of BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ABANDONED FOR AROUND TEN OR MORE YEARS! They capture some of the beauty that was part of some places, as well as some of the starkness, but um, um, well institutional buildings look like, well, institutional buildings. I personally attended a middle school built in the thirties and it looked more like a jail than the local jail, but most schools of that era were built like that. It's the same with these buildings, the ones from the 1800s are architecturally stunning IMHO, the ones from 30s are more stark, why you may ask was it built so stark..That was their idea of a streamlined efficient facility, a MODERN FACILITY, not one that was intended to be cruel and inhuman.
Lastly NIKKI, Dear Nikki. Lynne Most certainly has a clue. Please people stop lumping all caregivers into the same category as the commandants of Nazi death camps, they are the frontline in the battle to provide people with various problems the care that they need, to live as fulfilling a life as they possibly can.

*sigh* Sorry long winded again.
Here's yer box back Lynne. *Shuffles away from keyboard repeating I will not be long winded I will not be...*

See typing about Motts makes me stutter type.....I'm not worthy

*Bows before the amazing Mots*

I often return to this picture (I secretly use this picture to create Opacity addicts) when I want to show someone an example of Motts' incredible ability to capture such stunning contrasts,(I know, I know, there are tons of awesome shots) but for me, for some reason, I almost always show someone this one first.

Motts you are a amazing...