Some weird good news, I was recently diagnosed and treated for a sleep disorder, which seems to have improved my mental and emotional condition....
My spouse says I am a different person lately and she has been freaked out by the positive improvement....
I try not to focus on all the years of misery that we had been attributing to my mental/emotional problems, but look on the bright side at how much more energy and zest for living I have been given thanks to the treatment...
I continue to remember you and yours in my prayers Pookie
Sorry a mistake there, when I type so fast I can make little errors, I was in my early twenties at those jobs.
I was lucky to get out of that line of work and go back to school in my late twenties and early thirties....
Never met any Gaebler alums anywhere else, so yeah, that was a fluke with you and the little cafeteria lady....
I seem to remember I thought she was an African American lady, but can clearly recall she also had a hispanic first name...so yep must have been your kindly boyfriends mom I knew...Peace friend
I never had such an unlikely reunion with any Gaebler "alumni."
I do remember two young men who I knew a bit at Gaebler and met later out in the wider society,
One was just a casher at McDonald's restaurant a few years later; while the other sadly appeared to be a street hooker.
I had a graveyard shift job in downtown Boston for a few years and saw him late at night waiting to be accosted by passing cars near, St. James Avenue in downtown Boston.
He was out there at all hours and from my vantage point at work I could see him getting in different cars all night over the course of my shift.
It was pretty sad as it was the mid eighties and I thought f...ck!, that kid is gonna get infected with AIDS!
It was weird I had seen him in the early Eighties--in better days for hiim I think--on my way to work around ten thirty or so at night with a group of young people out partying on the weekend.
I worked the third shift for several years in my late twenties at different jobs, because it was easier to not have to deal with a lot of the usual stress from people and the world.
Anyhow, I am glad you had a better sort of experience in terms of seeing old Gaebler folks. And a question, was the Manuella you speak of a very short person?
Such a sad story. I too wondered what happened to their things that were never unpacked. I bet they had some gorgeous stuff! Hopefully it's in good hands because had it been left here, vandals would have taken it all to sell online or some crap like that. Makes me so mad!
In my opinion, conductive pads are there just to align potentials of the patient, the gurney and connected portable device such as a sensitive EKG monitor. Proper grounding will get better results of monitoring weak millivolt signals of a human body without static electricity induced while moving. Gurney wheels made of rubber may be a bit conductive, too.