3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

I like your lighting, however.

Aw, geez - MARVELOUS shot!

Isn't that an examination table someone dragged into the bathroom? Don't know if this is a first or second floor shot, but if it's first, mebbe it was to hop in and out the windows. If it's second floor, can't help. I am assuming it was dragged into the room after the place was shut down because it blocks the final stall.

Radical Ed and all y'all UEs - does every building there have asbestos? Did they ever do any projects to rip it out before the place closed down? How about the floor and flooring tiles, etc.?

Ah, the seventies! You know, Ed, between your comment about Steely Dan's fantastic "FM" and your knowledge of ELO, this either definitely shows your age or it shows that your parents had some fantastic musical taste. ;-)

Speaking of ELO, if I married ELO guitarist Jeff Lynne, my name would be . . . .

Between the comment about the large pipes on the floor previously being part of the urological exam equipment and the comment about a patient being potentially catapulted out the window mid-exam, this shot is starting to take on some seriously hysterical overtones here . . . . . . . . 8`-)

Hey, ~Me! Are you saying that the pipes afforded some sort of pain relief?!?!?!?!?! =8-o

[Said with straight face]
Hey, Mr. Motts! Maybe that hole in the middle of the sink is where the light fixture goes! ;-)
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And you just HAD to be the one to say it, huh? ;-)

I see a number of metal drapery hooks - different shapes and sizes - but there might be other objects there as well.

Hey, ~Me. That is a great poem and great link! I even take back my comment about slapping you. ;-)

I felt a little easier knowing that people often only needed these behemoths for a week or so, but I am still claustrophobic even looking at them. The link that Motts gave showing an entire room full of people in iron lungs made me very uneasy as well. At the same time I am positive that I would be looking at these in a different way if I couldn't even draw in one good lung full of air, but what a life.

I know and work with many people with disabilities who use various types of adaptive equipment and it is amazing what people can adapt to when the need is there (especially the need to pull in enough air to breathe). And it is even more impressive how many of these folks handle it without complaining. Talk about personal strength!

Mr. Motts, I hope you don't mind if I take "~Me" aside for a nice little slap session later on, do you? 0- :-)

Great pix!
I'll ask one of the PTs at work if she knows what this might be.

Interesting pastel color combos . . .

Yikes! We probably don't want to know anyway. :`-)

The damn thing looks alive . . .