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Mr.Motts,
Please ,Kind Sir, Do tell us that you have another picture that maybe a double exposure could have happened here? Please.

Rich, a pentagram isn't always a desecration. A pentagram is also used by Wiccans (and Freemasons) - it is not exclusively Satanic by any means. And the chances are excellent it was some stupid punk kid who was just trying to get a reaction, anyways, rather than someone's calling card.

See:
http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa100102a.htm

I'LL give you some buttons, Missy! >:-(

Interesting thing about curtains - at work a few weeks back several of us were touring through some of the buildings in the old section of campus that is closed down and was last used in the late 70s or early 80s (but built between 1910 and 1914). All of the basement rooms looked like nightmare alley with the peeling paint and falling ceilings, but those durned curtains looked pretty good every where we went. Must be something in that starch. ;-)

Don't make me have to come over there, you people! >:-(

This is a sling for a Hoyer lift, and that is a mechanical lift used to transfer people from place to place without having to use your back to lift them. Safer for them, easier for you. You can lift folks out of their chairs, onto toilets, into bed, into the pool, into the tub (or shower trolley!), etc.
http://www.dmeonline.com/PTLIFTS1.JPG
http://www.rehabmart.com/pim...-D_en.jpg
http://www.rehabmart.com/20...Hoy18.jpg
http://www.edmond-wheelchair.c...sling.JPG

Hee hee! Motts the interior decorator, sneaking into abandoned ruins just to spruce the place up a bit and freshen the decor! :-)

Boo-hoo, you young punk! You make us decrepit oldsters feel positively aged! 8`-(

But yes, that ink DID smell good! :-)

Oh, they are out there. I had one made back in 1990 or so. Baker's Pink, too! :-) I worked with a gentleman who was very strong and used to hurt staff and other clients when he became agitated (which happened quite easily), so we wanted to use a time out room to decrease the injuries to both him and staff when they were trying to get him to calm down after he hurt someone. The first time we tried it, he beat his head against the (solid) wall, so I had them pad it top to bottom. He then tore the padding out with his teeth and hit his head against the wall again, so I had them do some super-dee-duper unrippable padding. Unfortunately, he just started to eat his arms when he couldn't hit his head against anything solid, so we had to take him out and wrestle with him anyway. :-(

But once he understood that we weren't trying to hurt him when he was out of control, that we were just helping him calm down and learn to control himself, he gradually got better and better until I understand he is currently living in a community group home somewhere and doing quite well. :-)

Those of you who are critical of seclusion really ought to go one-to-one with someone who can't control themself and is twice your size and thinks you are trying to kill or hurt them. It gives you a slightly better perspective of the various ways people use to cope with difficult situations. There is significantly less restraint and seclusion used these days, but most of it is because of the psychotropic medications someone was slamming a month or two ago. Again, here is a devil's choice - do you want people drugged or do you want them restrained? Spend a week with someone who is paranoid and needs medication and isn't taking it - you'll have an interesting and new perspective, I can almost guarantee you. :-)

I don't know about your state laws, but records are open to the public once a person is deceased. The dead have no rights according to our government.
Jill ;-(

She'll sell them to you on Ebay!


Sorry, Lynne, couldn't help myself! Still waiting on buttons.

This is a restraint vest to keep someone in a bed or chair. These are no longer used as so many patients have been strangled by them.

so sad our society treats people like this.

;-((

suction machine

I spent many days watching them pop open a skull and weigh the brain while having my lunch. Just had to remember not to dunk. seriously. It saddens me to see a piece of history desecrated. When the drugs eat wdeep into the recesses of your gray matter, where will you go? A cardboard box under I-95. Sad.

This is one of the smaller auditoriums. There were quite a few. The biggest, Fury Ellis Auditorium held nearly 300 people. Byberry had churches, a temple, indoor pools. The tunnels went from Near Somerton, at Philmont avenue to Franklin Mills mall. From Nabisco to the Hilton Hotel. Old patients used to escape and live in there, Some died in there. There are things you don't know. Please be careful

There were a mutlitude of Autopsies performed there. the Pathologists kept one open for new hires, so the person giving the tour could open it up. A friend hid in there, When she opened it, she made a comment about it being a mistake, but frank sat up. Fanny pulled the sheet off and told him he was an idiot. But the new employees had left the building. One leaving a trail of PEE.

i do not want to know what exactly is running down the door...I really dont.