176 Comments for Heptner State Hospital

Looks like a giant bladder.

RE: Tracy

They had to use a form of restraint on my infant son. He was very sick and they had several tubes on him. He kept trying to pull the oxygen tube and IV out. He was just being curious, but they we keeping him alive. So they used a board type restraint to stop him till he was able to breath on his own, and they could remove the tubes. I was with him all the time and the nurse were in the room about ever 15 min. to check on him.

It was heart breaking to see, but at least he is here with me today 5 years later.

I don't know how you do it. Along with everything else, now you need to worry about wild animals?

the restraints for the children and babies are very disturbing, and the guy at the end smiling just makes me feel completely sketched out.

The one man laying down looks a little excited...lmao

That guy does look like hitler lol. Why would such restraints be used on infants and babies????

Thats not a water tower. Thats the record holder for the world's biggest soap despenser.

So I'm pregnant & so is my sister-in-law...think I could find a copy of this instruction manual to hang up on the walls to keep order during the terrible 2s? I'm so kidding...but I love old instructions like this and the section on properly tying knots reminds me of boating lessons! I love it, as I do all your stuff...amazing locations & shots, as per usual.

Non-heat conducting? Heat (thermally) diffusive?

quick question were poseys specifically for the mentally disabled or would you get these as part of basic hospital gear for anyone?

This reminds me of when I had surgery. I woke up in the hospital and was still really out of it due to the anesthetic. Someone used a restraint to tie my left arm to the gurney. The iv was also taped to my arm. The first thing I tried to do was rip all the tubes out with my free arm even though the nurse kept telling me not to. It was kind of shocking, I had no idea what was going on. All I knew for sure was that I wanted those tubes out of my arm.
I suppose that is a good reason to use restraints, it would have been a lot messier without them.

Thinking of restraints in a psych ward just plain scares me though. That's something completely different.

the explanation fo the restraints were interesting. The drawing up top made the whole thing awesome. I could use these at my job, i would be fired tho since any type of restraints is forbidden. Even tho it would help from getting bit, punched, headbutted.. things like that

Wait till you are trying to sew up the occasional large gashes that surprisingly strong whirlwind two-year-olds seem to attract and dealing with an understandably semi-hysterical parent with blood all over the place and your perspective might change. Hanging on to someone who is strong for their size and doesn't want your assistance and who is amazingly slippery due to being covered with blood does not make for graceful medical interventions. Similarly if your child doesn't understand that moving around may cause a bone that is setting properly to re-break and/or come out of alignment or pop a gastrostomy or G-tube out of place, these devices will quickly become an extremely helpful rehabilitation tool.

Anyone who wants to tie up or restrain someone does not need to wait for a set of properly adjusted well-fitting posey restraints. But if you have need (or frankly even if you don't) I would feel better about someone being restrained correctly and in the proper body alignment than I would with someone making something up from scratch.

Work a shift in an emergency room hospital with screaming, frantic, injured toddlers or with large adults who are totally unable to control themselves either due to psychosis, pain, or substance abuse. Think about things in context and how they can be properly used before assuming that these are items used for control and pain. ANYTHING can be made into an instrument of torture if that is what is in your mind and that is your intent. All that THIS is is an instrument or tool. The person who uses this is the one who has the ability to use or mis-use it.

I'm totally against the baby restraints!!!! Having a 2 year old nephew makes looking at that completely sickening to me.

I wonder if Posey Van Pelt was related to Lucy and Linus....