2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

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Well, the comment section got extremely personal...

Sweet!
I'd love to get my hands on one of those
I love coloring :3

Thanks Lisee!

I get a sinking feeling when I see a scene like this because something inside of me says, 'this needs to be set right!' and of course it is beyond possible.

I'm so grateful that you share these photos and your remembrances, Mr. Motts. I am awed by the beauty of your photos in a way I find hard to describe. It's like getting a glimpse into a sacred place. It gives me a different perspective of time and place. I've always loved old buildings and would love to do what you've done if I was younger.

My memory of childhood is that I would try my hardest and often strain without end until someone stopped me because I wanted to succeed and I do not quit. Anyway I can easily imagine that I might have caused myself a hernia. I have been told that you can have one and not know it. Apparently all it is is a tear in the muscle that lets underlying muscle or tissue push through wither as is or when one tenses the muscles involved under weight.
I never had to be naked in a group but I didn't feel comfortable being alone with strange adult men either. Some were cool and properly nervous and uncomfortable doing it and others were dead creepy.

I'm sorry about your experience. I found my feelings on the matter were about my own insecurity about myself not about the truth of what I look like.
I mostly just act as if I am comfortable whether I am or not since NJ is a place of a very Spartan culture among boys unless you are of a certain station then you get to go somewhere your parents pay to have you subject to the same sorts of poking and prodding seeking to expose insecurity. Its all a false attempt to make you face your fears and be strong to make you a good man when you grow up.
I believe that such things can be done much less harshly ala horse whispering instead of horse breaking.

The spiders and webs would definitely freak me out, especially in the dark.

They were doing hernia checks on 10 year olds? How many kids that age have hernias? Do they still do this sort of thing because if I were a parent and my grammar school child had to line up with a bunch of other butt naked kids waiting for some guy to do this, I'd maybe not allow it. Tell them I'll have our primary care doctor do this, thank you. And from what I remember from the girls, their experience wasn't any better. I was a very shy kid at that age and hated school to begin with, was always picked on and teased so having this happen was very traumatic for me. Fortunately it didn't cause any permanent psychological damage (that I know of) but I remember classmates in tears because other kids were making fun of their naked bodies, weight issues or ahem.. shortcomings. I find it strange that they stopped that when I got to junior high, which seems to be when they should have started this. Maybe I wouldn't have been so nervous if I was older. By the time I got to junior high I didn't care what anyone did to me.

I am always amazed at the HUGE size of these places! It boggles my mind.

IDK Mica I am jaded by life's experience of my fellow Americans ignorance based trust in an idea of our system (Those who know share knowledge to lift up those who do not. We're all in this together.) that has been almost entirely corrupted by people who imagine they are better than those naive enough to trust, as well as the willingness of some to be corrupt for petty, evil and avaristic reasons.
It may have been a genuine oversight if my theory is correct. Or it might just have been something else innocuous or malevolent that we cannot even imagine that resulted in this mess.

That is a hernia check. I'm not sure of what exactly is being felt for when you cough though I can imagine that ones diaphragm/stomach muscles might not pull up in the same way if you have a hernia.
LPN you got any input on that?

Absolutely awesomeness IR FTW, yes + The Buildings look so well from this point -
unbelievable they have not been renovated and taken care of.
Would be wonderful To Live There!
Beyond repair now, are they not?
We have so many pictures to look at from this place.
Thanks!

I remember those sugar cubes too now that you mention it! It's no wonder we were so traumatized as kids, between this and lining up naked with all the boys in your class while some doctor went down the line telling you to "turn your head and cough" - to this day, I still don't know what that was all about!!

Ohhh dear! Yes, thank you, flushed - a link missing on the chain? So; was there a decision to be taken, to deal with them, that was not made by someone, maybe, do you think?
"The Sending Them Along-part" is absent. Grrrrrrrr.......
I like the little triangulart light creeping in at corner of the board.