34 Comments Posted by Rickman

Second star to the right and straight on till morning!

Ok I checked out the adaptive mall website and the SN Maclaren pushchair is only 100.00 more than the Maclaren I bought Feb 2007 (but its on sale)
Its normally around 800.00

I could sit and read stuff like that all day. I did get the chance to explore and an abandoned house about 15 years ago. My cousin and I sat down and read all the documents left on the floor. Didnt take anything, just sat and read.

I have heard that baby walkers do not help a infant learn to walk because they are unable to see their feet. (ie the tray on the walker; etc) So I am going out on a limb and say this type of walker helps because the Individual is able to see their feet?

yeah and if you became unruly, they would put a lid on it...fine by me , I just swung on the top bars

That would drive me mad, especially if I could hear other people while trying to focus on whatever I was doing. Thats ADHD for you. *Thanking the powers that be for Bose headphones*

I have a 5 month old baby, so I can understand about the used equipment and vulnerable children. However, call me optimistic or perhaps unrealistic, but when I see equipment like that, I see possibilities. In the day and age we live in, if people can go in and clean a room where a corpse has been lying for a month and leave said room looking brand new, they can sure find a way to remove mold and sterilize equipment like this.
(I apologize for ranting)
As far as the condition "the latest equipment could only be used" I would like to give the benefit of the doubt and think it would be for safety reasons, ie recalls etc; but it sounds like its more about the almighty dollar so that they will continue to buy the newest line.
I can understand concerns about a family or gods forbid, a facility, selling equipment for money instead of using it for the person who needed it originally.
Your Right, your damned if you do and your damed if you don't.

Ever seen rats in there?

Could this equipment be used today? Or is it too outdated?

I would like to buy one of these old buildings and then look through all the paper work, play with all the gagets, explore every nook and cranny and invite you all to join me :)

Yeah, my school headmaster was in one of these as a child.
I have a Time Magazine picture book and people use to decorate their iron lungs with pictures and stuff ( I thought that was pretty cool)

I said this before... I saw one for sale on EBAY and the seller actually got in it and turned it on. He said it put alot of pressure on his chest.
Can you imagine getting stuck in one of these and calling the fire birgade to get you out?

ECT = Electroconvulsive Therapy

Kids with Downs Syndrome are the most LOVABLE people you will ever enocounter, I am sure that they were a bright part of the staffs day. I used to pick up a child from school who had DS, and I opened my arms up and he sprinted into them. He really made my day at times.
My co-worker and I were out with the kids one day on the field behind the ymca and I looked up and shouted "my gods we have to go in now!!" There was a tornato! Well 25 kids ran towards the gym and I yell "Chris" (The 7 year old with DS) Well, ol "Chris" was ahead of the pack by far! He was the first to the Gym!!

Yeah.

Its called Skeleton Stories on Discovery Health
The episode is titled "Buried Secrets" and it airs again on July 13, 2007 @ 10 pm and 1 am.
It was REALLY intresting! So SET YOUR DVR!!!