3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Anyways, you aren't locked in a room without a bathroom unless you are in isolation for violent behavior, and even then, they have to give you a bathroom break. This is just an old patient bedroom that was small, like most rooms were at the time. Very few rooms then, including rooms in community homes, had bathrooms attached.

However, I am guessing that if every room had a bathroom, people would think that was weird too.

Sometimes, you're darned if you do and danged if you don't. :-)

Aw, I like Staycee! :-)

The Little Kitty Cat

Lordy, honey, like there would be room for a toilet? 8`-) Where I work, the majority of folks don't have a toilet in their bedroom.

Hell, the majority of people I know who live in the community don't have a toilet in their bedroom. :-)

If being a "smart ass" is what you mean, I think there are plenty folks here who would agree. ;-)

8`-) Oh, poor Staycee! 8`-) Don't you hate re-reading your comments later and it looks like you meant something weird when you really didn't? 8`-)

I am thinking there some places on the web where people who are undergoing psychiatric treatment write blogs and don't mind sharing them with others. As well, I am sure there are books that people have written about the time they spent in a mental health facility. Of course, once you know that someone else is going to read whatever you write, whether you are the patient or the staff, you tend to censor yourself. And if anyone is going to publish you for the "masses," they want things to be pretty exciting.

I will look and see if there are any resources or references for folks who have an interest in this.

We'd have room for another 1/2 dozen other folks in there with us, eh?

Comes and goes - ya just go with the flow. :-)

XXXOOO

Back in the old days (a few years ago) we didn't have ozone sterilizers or big budgets; we were stuck with chemical disinfectants and steam sterilizers to clean mattresses. When there was no money coming in on a regular basis and/or when you were at double the patient capacity for which you had equipment, rather than throwing everything away, as people do today, anything that could be was recycled. A mattress sterilizer was a dearly beloved commodity in hospitals, especially military hospitals, and they worked on the old-fashioned idea of using saturated steam heat to blast out the little nasty critters. Here is a reference for a saturated steam sterilizer that can be used for mattresses, clothes, etc.
http://www.prenex.com/en/autoclave.html

Kewl, El Steveo - thanks!

It IS sad - it is something that cannot be adequately described to someone who has never experienced it or lived intimately with someone who is going through it. It is one of the saddest diseases there is because we are right on the threshold of finding ways of reducing or, hopefully, eliminating it, and we know we are almost there, but not quite. The toll it has taken is unspeakable and immeasurable, so to me the horrible irony is how the disease not only alienates us from others, but how many others take such great pains to disassociate themselves from people who are going through it.

P.S. Many institutions still do their own cooking.

http://www.thisoldtoy....peopcircustrain.html

P.S. Wire mesh was pre-Plexiglas. :-)

It is creepy to me that people have sadistic ideas like this all on their own and then assume that all staff will have similar ideas and then actually carry those ideas out.