2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

Ah ha, thank you Lynne. Disgusting, sure, but curiousity killed the cat, now didn't it? I do see how it might be helpful to have it curved to fit your neck or whatever, but I'm with you Lynne - I certainly wouldn't want my face that close, that would make me sick again! And not to be exceedingly gross (so if you have a weak stomach, don't read on! You've been warned!) but, uh, I'd have the say the splashback would be pretty bad with something so small...last thing I want is it all over my face and in my eye...(sorry for being disgusting, but such things make you think.) Don't hit me! *cowers in fear*

.....AND this is why I LOVE Lynne so much! :)

Well, ya know, Barbara, I don't really know. It's just something I think we have seen so many times we forget that it is kinda odd. I think originally it was so you could have something small enough to grab onto quickly and you could put your hands on each side and hang on for dear life while puking your guts out, but I'll admit, the few times I have felt like that, the LAST thing I wanted was to continue holding onto anything that was going to stay that close to me - a bucket seemed like a MUCH nicer idea. 8`-) However, if you are bedridden, it's true that it's difficult to hoist a bucket up that quickly. I still find it hard to believe that most people can keep much of anything contained in that feeble little basin. It's not been my experience that they have been too terribly helpful. I still end up cleaning a LOT of stuff up. [Insert a weird screwed up grin right about here]

They also use them for toothbrushing if you have to stay in bed for a whiles, so's you can spit out the water when you brush your teeth.

Also, as gross as this sounds, there are times when you really kinda have to know just exactly how much someone threw up (hooray for input-output charts, eh, anna?), so I am happy to say that many (most?) of them are handily marked with both American and metric measurements for your measuring ease. [feeble grin - please quit retching, y'all, you think we LIKE to clean up puke?]

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P.S. "anna's arch-nemesis" - hee hee hee!!!!! When you have to clean that stuff up it's true - it quickly DOES become your arch-nemesis!!!! 8`-)

Anna, We forgive you. But darn girl that was funny! :)

Kara Sunshine would find this sort of thing "kinky"

and I think it reads G5 not an upside down 5 at all.

Lynne, YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Mauh!

I really don't understand the shaping of these and why they are so small...what's wrong with a bucket? Maybe Lynne could be of some help here...

eeew an emesis basin... emesis. (gag)

David, aren't you the one that said the wheelchair wheel was the worst thing you have ever seen? Seems to make us doubt your opinion. I love this shot. I would sit there for hours.

wish it was the worst thing I had ever seen...

If that were the only toilet available, I think I would have to start wearing Depends!!!! lol

one more comment... it looks like what is called a "toileting sling", where you lift the person up from the chair and set them on the commode. That is one of the older kinds, that you have to literally crank like a water crank to move them up and down, and they swing from chains... To me, sounds kind of kinky for personal use, but the residents HATE them.

I agree with Lynne. We use the Hoyer slings without the metal bars, but I have used those in the past. Scary to use sometimes, you always feel like the person will just fall out and hit the floor.

I work in a nursing facility in Quincy, Illinois. I have been a CNA for about 8 years. It is amazing even in my 8 years in nursing how we have gone from full restraints to no restraints. I can only imagine being a worker at one of these horrible places. How could you face your family each night knowing that you kept these people tied, gagged, and caged all day every day???? I sometimes cry thinking about it.

Damn fine shot, SIr.

F*@& ME!



I F*@&ing love this Shot!


Lord Motts you must send me a print, pretty pretty please. I would love to see what frame my Ol' Man would wrap that in, DAMN NICE SHOT, Sir