1,476 Comments for Letchworth Village

Motts, of all of the pictures of dental related 'things', this is by far the best one I have seen....

Ah. That explains my severe kidney pain.

Ha ha

'Andrew Nobody' got owned

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The comment that talked about the metal plates on the table going into the autoclave reminded me of an old ER story. Our local coroner was a very laid back guy and he came in to check a fatality from a car accident. For a certain period after death you can draw blood out of the heart. He told me to go for it. Showed me the spot on the chest to insert the needle and then proceded to talk with the cops., He was watching me as I prepared the equipment and when i SWABBED the skin with alcohol he gave me such a look!! He said quietly don't need to do that to a dead body.......

The last one of these that I ever saw was in the hospital I worked in starting in 1971. The county built us a new hospital in 1977. When we moved the "flushers" stayed behind.
I also seem to remember that the flusher was only used and the bedpan considered sanitized. Between patients the old metal bedpans were sent to central sterile to be actually sterilized. Now everything is plastic and thrown away. Not at all sure this is progress.

it looks like a pic of robert duvall as mccall in lonesome dove

So sad this place was lost by the fire and thoughtless vandels.

wonder if the pills, made 'em 'kill the tv'

love this!

Who's up for a root canal?

Someone call the janitor, the damn toilet's backed up again. Who the hell keeps putting this stuff in here?

My husband just started having seizures for the first time in his life (that he knows of) 5 years ago at the age of 30. They only occur when he is falling asleep. So scary It takes him about 30 min to completely come around and know who I am, how old he is, our 9 year old daughter's name, etc....(last time he called her "volleyball") . If it were not for the holes he bites in the sides of his tongue, he would not believe me when I tell him it happened. The next day he is sore, of course, all of his muscles ache, and he says the tounge is the worst part. He takes daily meds now. Anti-convulsants. No one has been able to tell us exactly why. They call it Epilepsy, which is just a generalized seizure disorder. He had scarlet fever twice as a child and may have some scar tissue on his brain from that. NO way you could get anything into his mouth if you tried. he is totally clenched all over.

Estimated time of the crime Mr Watson? I' say around 2:19 in the morning.

Egad Holmes!

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This is indeed a bedpan sterilizer. It is designed to clean and sterilize only bedpans. Notice the insulated pipe to the left of the unit. That is a live steam pipe, the method of sterilization. The small dark tube to the right of the that pipe is a water pipe, used to clean the bedpan before sterilization. No question, a bedpan sterilizer.

That needle pegged at 340 psig but to be damaged like that it must have been subjected to a minimum of 10% over pressure..ie 380 psig. That would have been a scarey shift for the boilerman.