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Modern day college dorm room?

Wonder why it is dark to one side? Anyone looking at you there Motts? What an unusual hole pattern.

Shaken Fat Syndrome! Now we know the cause! hee hee hee.......

I think that due to lack of sexual comforts, this machine may have been a god send to some of the older residents? (sorry, in a humorous mood all of a sudden!)

Reminds me of a bomb shelter.

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Well, bless your aunt! People like that make it all worthwhile! :-)

We had the same tile on the walls of the bathrooms at the elementary school I went to. Didn't like it them, don't like it know. For some reason they can make a totally open and spacious room seem like a tiny closet. It wasn't a very "healing" color.

Motts, I have to agree with the other ladies here on the sign content. Many restaurant ladies rooms have similar signs even today, I think you can even order them pre-made. This is certainly not lewd in a woman's book. It is actually such a common sight for women that it is particulary humorous to us that you would find this lewd or unusual at all! I do like that they felt at least some patients were responsible enough to handle things themselves.

My Aunt worked for most of her career at a nursing home facility in Knoxville, TN. She would often be left with the whole floor and two aides. Not alot of workers to wash and dress sometimes up to 50 patients by breakfast. Consequently many showed up for breakfast in their jammies. She had to make a conscious decision as to who got dressed for the day. She usually dressed the people who were still mentally capable and she felt that they could stand a little normality in their lives. She even once turned the whole kitchen upside down to find a woman's uppers that she had left on her tray at lunch. She made sure that any messes were cleaned as soon as humanly possible and she made sure everyone was as clean as possible. She didn't like to keep anyone in bed for too long (except for those that were bedridden, she liked to bring in her used magazines and books to offer them). She had the aides get them up and into wheel chairs and other devices so that they were ambulatory at least. When I visited there a few times (my great grandmother was there till she passed away at 98 years old) I noticed that even though the staff was so slim and things didn't always happen instantly, it was much better then the other facilities I had been in over the years. For one it didn't have an overpowering smell of urine. The ingrediant that made it all possible? Employees who actually cared for the patients. My aunt befriended many a patient and would cry every time someone on her floor died or was transferred off of her floor. She attended every funeral. She would get extremely upset when another employee was slacking. She would even come in on her own time sometimes to talk to her patient friends, read someone a book, read mail to patients. To outsiders and other employees she seemed like a very gruff and blunt person, to her patients she was an angel! After all, aren't they the ones who count here? Not all hospital staff are heartless, abusers, or goof-offs. Many would do more if they had the time and help. In her case they were Mothers and Fathers. Maybe calling them sisters and brothers was an attempt at humanizing things in such a overun facility?

Looks like a rose to me, not a face.

Maybe sometimes the better patients were left temporarily to their own devices while the aides had other work to do, maybe readying the next patients for bath, and they used the window to make sure no one was drowning, getting hurt, or hurting someone else.

You could liken the tapeworm to the hospital, sucking the life out of it's poor helpless victims.

What was the rather large protruding box on the wall? It sticksout far enough!

What's more disturbing then what it says is how it is painted.

Yea it still stands was there yesterday. but there was a bowdoser (spelling) along the driveway and it was all boarded up took us sumtime to get inside.

As a Teddy Bear collector I find this picture fairly unsettling. The poor thing, abandoned except for the passing photographer or miscreant. He just cries out to you! "Where is everybody?" "Someone tie my shoe and hood!" "Where is my girl/boy at?"

On another note, I like the craft projects. I wonder if they were going to paint these pieces and hang them outside their doors or off of the end of their beds (wards). It was a very creative idea that I intend to share with my sister who is an elementary art teacher.

who in the right mind would leave an engine laying there