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I think this is a shower chair I worked in a nursing home and this is what the shower chairs looked like.

WOW so pretty Motts

I remember this lobby being filled at check-in time for singles weekends, college and high school trips, and the Sr Citizens "mid-week specials". I worked here as a lifeguard and running the spotlight in the nightclub. I usually wasn't in this part of the hotel but since I was part of the activities staff, occasionally my boss, Hank Leids, would have me come to help out with the check in. I'll never forget the time he decided it would be funny to bite me on the ass in the middle of the lobby during a singles weekend check-in!!! Kind of hard to keep order and respect in the pool after that!!!

"Hi Big Ed,
I'm sorry to keep this going but this thread is really interesting. You actually had to go to the hospital because of injuries sustained on the job?"

I've had to go for a few tetanus shots because of cuts I've received. Once I had to be checked for a concussion after I took a couple of shots to the head.. I had a split lip from a sucker punch. I worked at the pointy end of the stick (that's how I describe direct care staff who are first in the room on a help call). If everyone did their job no one got hurt staff or patient.. Patients were almost never injured during helpcalls. For those who may feel otherwise, consider this. If some one did get hurt we'd have to spend the rest of the shift treating the injury and trying to CYA. We're a lazy lot paperwork wise. So we were as careful as possible to not injure anyone ,if not from a sense of compassion then for our own good..

Take downs are supposed to be safe efficient and rare. We always tried to be that way. A fight on the floor ruined a night. Someone could get hurt, restraints might happen, and the documentation these days would choke a horse. Restrain a patient kill a forest.

Howie,
Yup - She left a few months after I started there. Right around the same time as the head lifeguard, don't remember his name - just that he was a vegetarian. I ended up the only lifeguard for that winter - 1980-1981.
I don't know what ever happened to Helana, but she was definitely someone you don't forget...... When I first started there I shared a room with her. I was quite happy when that arrangement ended!!!

lynne, i applaud you. Everyone has different views but being aware is the difference. In the early 70's they stopped sterilization of mentally ill patients- my mother had us- she is and always will be bi-polar and schi.with knowing the genetic factor now- my whole family has one or another illness- then the family had children( except me) the children show signs of illness. Mental illness has two disturbing factor -poor impulse control and high sex drive- I get scared- it's knowing there is no CURE to mental illness and meds do not always work- that keeps me from passing my gene to the next- my mother in her delusional state has beat me into another world has tried to commit sucide over and over and still to this day I do not know who she really is- I think people forget that this happens- I wish people would visit a group called nami ( for the families) and see the horror of it- these places mr motts takes such beautiful pics of saved I am sorry that I have gone off the dep end but people do not know how it feels to be in a full circle of mental illness where often you see the new system not work and pray for the old one back........

love the pic- yes a cage - has any one thought maybe not all clients like to be with others????I know about the rooms for patients that had issue with others

thanks motts for the comments- the mesh protects ALL - unfortunetly people don't understand that a mentally ill patient does not have to be a criminal to be violent- work on a ward- the nicest client (whatever illness) when upset can be 10 times stonger then normal-
I have witnessed a "women" knock down the hosp. sec. , 2 state troopers, the er staff and doc out of her way when they told her she couldn't smoke a cig. ( knowing that she was going to take off)

Drugs screw your brain up.

Also please read my other Central Terminal related comments.

You rock man!

lynne, unbelievable stuff - it is just beautiful

oh I am sorry- great job motts how did you get the pic that way

there is a research bldg-
but for torture I know many nurses and docs- that now work in other facilities and the only thing they will tell you that the patients seemed even then to have a lot of room to move- and if you lived in Norwich and road the city bus , you will remember a lot of them ( one in mind) that just use to ride the bus all day after they "escaped" that was why norwich city and that area was fun when I was young- the intresting people you meet!!!!!

i know I have said it before like a old maid- but be careful- the salmon bldg is in bad shape- if you look on the side you will see the brick is collapsed- please take a friend- and truely I would be more afraid of getting lost in the tunnels not of the boogies_ i do have to admit the kettle bldg gives me the creeps

You got that right man.