3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Taubin,

Believe about 50% of what you read about this place. This was the first major court case for MR/DD facilities and while there were rampant abuses here due to insufficient funding and citizen apathy, the worst abuses were touted as normal everyday occurrences because it sold more newspapers and was flashier on the 5:00 news. The fact that the people of the state and country didn't care enough about this class of citizens to do anything about them (like vote for funding so they didn't have to live like this) was somewhat left out of all the stories. The other part that was left out was the legion of underpaid staff who worked with little pay under appalling conditions to take care of these folks and the families who were forced to leave family members behind because the state (i.e., the people reading this right now who can vote) didn't provide funding for home services.

However, bottom line - if someone - anyone - is placed on a gurney without straps where I work they will get a disciplinary write-up because it is unsafe to put someone flat on their back on a piece of moving equipment and move them around. If they additionally don't understand why they are on a gurney and are being moved about they are more likely to fall off. It's a safety precaution.

You EMS people out there - how often are you allowed to put someone on a stretcher or gurney and move them around without first securing them with those pesky restraints? Ever?

Soap box rant #243. :-)

And you know how much we appreciate that you do this for us. :-)

There's some word for the type of metal they use for the mesh that keeps it from conducting heat so it's significantly cooler than the radiator itself. Come on you technical types - what's the word?

Now, there's a hang-danged good thought, Motts!

By the way, Cyber, you notice that the other two children didn't seem quite as pleased. I don't know the age at which Native American infants stopped being carried all the time in the papoose boards - probably at the end of their first year when they started walking. Don't know for sure, but maybe it's a more natural feel for an infant than a growing/exploring child.

http://www.nativeameri...ooseCradleboards.htm

And yes, I am thinking that the adult pictured has possibly partaken of the same hallucinogenic drugs that were referred to earlier.

None I'd take pix of for the public. ;-)

Sketchie - try eBay or any medical supplies store. ;-)

Missed ya, nvus!

Jeebers, nvus, I love that word!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

:-)

Poor, poor Motts.

Think of infants in papooses. They are perfectly comfortable.

Axle grease? To make you slip and fall or to mark you so they could catch you later? ;-)

Jumpin' Jehosephats! In color the striking craftsmanship of the wood jumps right out at you! Wouldn't you love to have one of these in your entrance hallway? Mike is right - if they didn't strip this place down it would be original sin.

Well, *I* am not going to be the first one to say it . . . . . . .

What an angle - I love it! It almost makes me feel like I could somehow get to the top of the ceiling and then slide down one of those beams. Guess that gravity-deal sort of puts it out of the question, eh? :-(

Incredible atmosphere in this one. I think it's the shadow in the upper right corner that makes it so perfect, and it was obviously never meant to be anything but a black-and-white shot.