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With a pneumothorax we generally make patients get up and walk four times a day. You run a very high risk of developing pneumonia. Sorry you had to have stinky pits. The nurses must have been busy eating popcorn and gossiping at the nurses station 8-)

Two of our favorite things!!!! A long hallway shot combined with a lonely chair shot.......another wallpaper? Maybe if it was done horizontally.....

Beuuutiful, Motts!!! Very nice window! It would make a great wallpaper....I'd take this one!

Lynne!!! Where is your Motts-and-a-mop-picture here??? I thinkn he cleaned up a bit, don't you?

Well, Tony, darlin', we thought it went without saying that we would all dance with you FIRST. Mr. Depp is just a "Johnny Come Lately" to us. ;-)

Silkster, the girls are all pining(sp?) for Johnny Dep. LOL....Ya think Johnny would "step aside", and let me dance wid the ladies?
I love these tilted hallway shots, too. They are the best. Doesn't that light on the ceiling look like a double-barrel shotgun?

Well, overall this isn't too bad if it is done by someone who is at the 4 to 6 year developmental level. Lots of little kids draw long ears on bunny rabbits and forget that they don't also have ears at the side of their heads like people do. It's sort of an egocentric thing at that age. The eyelashes are actually a good thing (as are the eyebrows and the curve of the cheeks) - extra detail = + intelligence. The only thing odd about this (other than the fact that this tells me it was either drawn by someone who was very young or who was developmentally very young, which is sad if they were in a psychiatric hospital and especially if this was a seclusion room) is the drawn teeth which sometimes indicate hostility. Of course, if the person was very young or was developmentally immature and was in seclusion, you can certainly understand them being somewhat pissed off.

Anyways, I shouldn't even be engaging in this sort of speculative shenanigans, not knowing anything about the person who drew this. For all we know, one of the staff may have had their child with them at work one day (we have seen in other posts that this was not an uncommon occurrence in the past) and maybe the child drew on the wall and then it got painted over.

P.S. Almost all portraits are self-portraits in some way, and I'm not even a Freudian. :-)

(5:26pm) This is an amazing shot, Motts...The way the colors on the wall melt into each other....then there's the wall out in the hallway.
And, the debris (not derbies here, sorry...they might be in another room) on the floor behind the door, it looks like its flowing out . Kind of in slow motion.

David Ferleger? This guy?

http://www.ct.gov/ag/c...?Q=306650&A=1949
http://www.vor.net/Oct%2028%202005.html
(****Second story****)
http://www.boston.com/...parate_compensation/
http://www.mail-archiv...nn.edu/msg00432.html
http://www.mail-archiv...nn.edu/msg00410.html

Where I used to work they left a lot behind, and it wasn't state run. It was just cheaper than doing a full inventory and then moving the things.

In fact, there was so much left behind they reopened the kitchen for some basic cooking.

How strange, until I got to this photo, I was thinking about the lack of graffiti.

I'm with Lynne on this one. The Teeth and what appears to be a set of second human ears freak me out. Adding the eyelashes I wonder if this was a subconscious self-portrait.

One of the best pics I've seen you use to open your gallery. I can't wait to see the rest!

yeah, I got both of those already, and a whole lot more. And my interview with David Ferleger explained about the Lynchburg Colony.

The corners are rounded as in the Kirkbride style of building. Asylums in England (Cane Hill, Severalls, etc) never used the Kirkbride plans, preferring echelon instead. The corners probably have some use, though.

Comrades, the sputnik has landed!