19 Comments Posted by Modmadmike

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It's a pen attached (by a rope) to a board that would normally have paper for writing on, but the goats ate the paper so all that's left is the wood backing and the string.

and yet another: http://www.snopes.com/...reakish/elevator.asp

Here is a similar accident: http://newyork.cbsloca...n-elevator-accident/

Elevator control panels are not reused because of newer safety codes. Someone was not too recently decapitated by the elevator because the maintenance man forgot to take it out of maintenance mode (which caused it to ignore the door sensors telling the electronics that there was a person still in between the doors (the person had fallen horizontally which is how they were torn between the elevator and the floor [this was shown in final destination {1 or 2} but it was supposedly impossible in real life because of the safety interlocks (which were bypassed by the maintenance man in real life)] and the doors were not fully closed). Don't be afraid to use the elevators, just be cautious while doing so (don't attempt to get onto one that has too many people on it, don't push or shove etc etc).
Sorry if I caused any nightmares.

I have been rushed through these types of elevators (nowadays they are for patient transport only) while waiting to get back to my room and be put back on the PCA pump

Here is the PDF for this shower: http://www.bradleycorp...ts/techdata/5280.pdf

They still sell these: http://www.bradleycorp...-stall-column-shower

With my hospital experience (I practically grew up there because of my connective tissue disorder (Loeys Dietz Syndrome [ I am one of only a few hundred on earth with this disorder]) I would much prefer this room over a double room, because sometimes your roommate inadvertently causes you excruciating pain. I had just had open heart (they split my sternum then I had a nuss-bar (used to fix my pectusexcavatum) inserted that caused the sternum to be stretched open while I was recovering [btw my sternum never fused to this day], so my roommate decided to put the tv on robot chicken and I couldn't help but laugh which caused excruciating pain (I had to keep pushing my PCA pump button for more morphine lol). So roommates can be good and bad.

Yup its a stationary TENS unit (I had a stationary one with 6 outputs!!) I use a portable one that has four outputs (8 electrodes) in conjunction with Opiates to control chronic pain. TENS works by overstimulating the nerves in that specific area which overrides the sensation of pain. Mine can also be used for muscle stimulation too.

I have my mother dispense my narcotics because its easy to increase your tolerance by taking too much when you are in pain, then the medications become less effective.

Larry D: Big Al is correct, its a fuse box (the old equivalent of a circuit breaker panel), there was a picture of a telephone junction box in this hospital too.

I remember looking through the little windows in the doors to the different ORs in John Hopkins while traveling to one of them to get my spinal tap (which was supposed to help alleviate my chronic pain thus reducing my dose of narcotics [oxycodone], but ended up making me have a horrible migraine for the next two weeks and didn't help with my pain), it was a bit eerie passing rooms where people were cut open having surgeries...

My mom (who works as a nurse) was pissed off about the fact that when I came out of surgery (I forget whether it was the open heart surgery or spinal fusion with hardware surgery) I was 4-way restrained. They said it was because they didn't want me to pull the ventilator tube out.

Appears to be an IV drip. Their would have been a metal band around the top to allow it to be hung on an IV pole.

Amazing machinery, but no way in hell would I work on it unless I removed the breaker and put a false one in. Otherwise some idiot would replace the breaker and reset it at just the wrong moment and those gears would continue to churn with one of my limbs in it. Maybe I am a little paranoid, but incidents like those happen all too often.