2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

poor kids, they may have disabilties but let them have privacy

Okay, I stand corrected, it was automated. :P But still ancient none the less lol :P :)

Wow that thing must be ancient! No automatic ball return / pinsetter. Must have been some task rolling your balls down the lane then having to go all the way back to retrieve the ball and reset the pins on your own. :P

For when you've gotta go, on the go! :)

it looks like it spells AAMPPCIII to me but I can't really be sure. I think it works like a huge typewriter; you pull the lever to the letter you want and it prints that letter onto a peice of paper behind the machine.

Well all I have to say is....wow...just wow to all these comments

I know a friend who has the burnt out ashes of a grand piano scattered all around his garden 0_o

Hi Lynne,
Echolalic? I've never heard of that before, how interesting. You should really write a book about your life, seriously! You care so much for these people and have had so many experiences. I think if you kind of "opened the door" and showed outsiders that most of these people are completely harmless many people would gain a better understanding. I've learned tons from reading your posts.

I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. :-)

Em, us old gals would shock some of you people with the seriously short lengths of our dresses back in the days. 8`-)

It looks too small to be a uniform article of clothing. Looks more like a child's nightgown to me.

who was killed there with a gun

Lynne, I am in awe of you. I have a second-hand knowledge of the medical profession through my now deceased mother. She spent her life as an RN helping those who needed it. The most part of her career was at a VA hospital tending to people who served our country. Upon my many visits to her job I saw things that were (from my perspective) disturbing. Restraints come to mind immediately. People who have mental disabilities (as was explained to me by my mother) are far more likely to hurt themselves or other patients/ staff than be hurt intentionally by the staff.
We cannot assume that all human beings are inherently evil or harbor ill-intent by glancing at a photo. As for myself, I find it absurd that a window would be installed just for the sole purpose of voyeurism.
Lynne, I would consider it an honor to hear from you. (goldenj@bossiercity.org)

Those stairs are freakin' me out!!

Common sense spoken by someone who has been there. Good on ya, Big Ed!

At one place where I worked one of our fellows wandered off and fell asleep in an elevator and was missing for hours. Didn't know how to open the elevator door back up once he got inside and he was nonverbal, so he just took a nap. Luckily, no problems occurred, but it was a frantic 2 hour search and when we opened the elevator, we woke him from his nap and he glared at us for disturbing his peaceful slumber. :-)

When our folks get lost or hide, many of them are unwilling or unable to respond.

Another time, when I was a special ed teacher, a student in another class went on a short hiking trip with his class, wandered off, and was difficult to locate because he was echolalic (echolalia = repeating the words you hear others say, also called "parroting") so when they called his name he also called his name, and it just sounded like another searcher calling his name. The event ended without tragedy, but trying to locate an individual with a handicapping condition who has disappeared is a lot dicier than you might otherwise think (even if they WANT to be found).

One possible reason for the widow to the hall might be, and I stress might be. Kids at state schools despite retardation, have a lot in common with"normal" kids. They like to hide. The little boogers can be really creative about it too. The window could be for the cursory search most places do, to make sure nobody's in the tub, floating or otherwise. It would allow the staff to come back and search more carefully, knowing that no one is drowned in a tub.

As for privacy, find a spot in any hospital that's truly private. Screens and such have uses and we do use them when possible. They can also be a hinderance in a setting that needs to be secure. If we miss a suicide. or an attempted suicide because of a privacy screen, there's a major problem there. Plus a wheeled privacy screen can be used as a weapon bits, and pieces of them can be swallowed.

Restraint is one of the tings we do when a situation or a person gets so far out of control they become a danger to themselves and others. These galleries depict technology from the past. The problem of seclusion and restraint is an ongoing problem in the 21st century. There is a nationwide initiative to reduce and eliminate retraints, and such where ever possible. Also to find ways to eliminate them where ever possible. It's a problem that's been there for a century or more.