2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

The H+C knobs and the tub come together to look like a severely unproportional face...either smiling or moaning...

it kinda looks like everyone got a flew shot in this room

i'll show you mine if you show me yours

and handy for getting a high dosage of radiation .. oh and think of the person looking at the screen. I beleive this device dates from the time you could buy a 'do it yourself' home radiation kit ...

and this is why I think most of my male patients watch waaaaaaaaaaaay too much porn involving nurses. Thats when we send in Diane. She is our old battle axe army charge nurse who is about seventy. 8-)

Hellooooooooo, Nurse! Sadly, nurses only wear outfits like that in porn now;)

The bowling alley reminds me of the movie 'Girl Interrupted.'

Such depressing pictures, but nontheless, beautiful.

This is why I don't suck my thumb - I'd kill myself. ;-)

Well ... first time posting for me - unfortunatly on a some-what dead topic, it would seem.

I work for our county's PHF. We have two seclusion rooms - both video monitored in the Staff's Station 24/7. In response to Skye's erronous 'facts,' there are indeed *ahem* facilities in both. One piece units of stainless steel much like those in modern county jail cells.

Granted, compared to Lynne I am hardly a poisoned tongue, er, fingers where the technicalities are involved, but I felt compelled to comment.

I used to work near a building like yours, Bob. The elevator was haunted. Although a key was needed it would go from the first floor, open up and then take you to the third floor without a key. The third floor, the old dormitories, were haunted so badly the nuns closed it up to regular foot traffic.

Some of the MR teens I worked with would say the elevator was run by the "elevator" man. And many of the boys would like to go to play up at the third floor with "Tony". Only, there was no "Tony" that lived on the property.

StareGirl,

Interesting stuff! I wish people could see this through your eyes as well.

I've worked with children who's homelife was jsut as bad if not worse myself. MR children who were sexually abuses by several relatives, for example. Or another who was locked in a closet for days because he was psychotic as well as MR.

BTW, I worked there in the 80s and early 90's.

Lynne-Where I worked some children came in at age 8. We attempted to prepare them to live in group housing or shared apartments by age 21. Sadly only a little over half were ever able to acheive that goal.

To expect a parent or parents to take physical abuse, watch him 24.7 without a break etc is not always possible. What can be possible to to find a placement where the child will be treated correctly, ethically and with love.

Places that do not take care of the needs of a child are never ever okay and simply put more guilt on the parents who have to make the hardest decision of their own lives.