2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

I would cause an earthquake if you put me on that thing, or give myself a black eye! ;-)

Looks like a souped-up version of a sitz bath, sure could use it for my emerods.

fair play.... just remember im not the one slagging you off at every turn. I was only expressing an opinion, and i was under the impression this site was an artistic record of the abandoned building.... i obviously got the wrong end of the stick

Wasn't ripping you a new one - however, yours was the comment that tipped me by suggesting, as many others have (see above) that perhaps I should adopt the view that "art is in the mind of the beholder" when so many people already view the entire field through a filter of "creative art." That was my point. If you look at the comments I was pointing out, THAT is where the "creative art" is. Those were written by people who don't have a clue about how these places work or used to work, and now they all have something to say, and almost every bit of it negative. I don't want to be THAT creative - I just want to point out what has happened - the bad stuff AND the good stuff. Most of the times that I have tried to pull us all back to reality I have gotten:
1-) asked to look at this as "art".
2-) told that I am cold and sterile.
3-) told of a story that happened to one person that obviously means that everything I have said must be false.
4-) told that if I can't see it there way I must be one of the Nazis.

Sorry if you were in the way when I exploded, but I am also tired of being picked at for telling about reality - what it's like to live and work here - and it grieves me repeatedly to see the lives of the people who live(d) and work(ed) here reduced to someone's "artistic fantasy."

and further to that.... where did i mention all that paprnormal crap? or mention any previous methods of paitent care by name? in fact.... ur post is pretty nippy isnt it?...... go rip the arse out of some of the people on this comments board who talk rubbish in every single post

woah.... hang on a minute.... im not demonising the staff in institutions.......99.9% of all mental health staff work incredibly hard on stupidly low pay and do an almost impossible job every single day simply for the love of it, im not arguing with that...... get off the soap box for just a second eh? i agree with a lotta what you say.... just not all of it. Go back and read all that again, i wasnt being in the least bit hostile towards you sorry i said anything now since you verbally ripped me a new arsehole.

I think this device belongs in a spa! Imagine having one to get into after working hard all day and needing to relax those muscles!

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.

reddll,

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?