I didn't share personal information. I was just saying that there are still adult sized cribs in use by some people. *sigh*

mindwrker, i hear ya about the picking out of the mother's casket. My mother died six months after cancer diagnosis, and humor was the ONLY thing that kept her and I sane. Even now, when she comes to see me in my dreams, she makes me laugh.

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

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.

ugh, I hate clowns

Sad, my husband spent the first two years of his life in a hospital in a crib like that... how cold and comfortless.

Ok, my husband put in that last comment from "kara christoffersen." Don't let him fool you, he has a fetish for being locked up ! hahah
Seriously, there is a whole lifestyle of Adult Babies (adults who like to wear diapers and dress as babies) who pay LOTS of money for cribs built custom made like the Utica cribs. I mean over a thousand bucks EACH.

We have commode/shower chairs like this where I work. However, they are made of PVC, and plastic netting. They do have a foot rest on them, but not foot pedals like these.