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Goosebumps

missouriman

I hope that the scars are drawn on. that is scary. I have taken care of cutters..

johny cash, I hurt myself today to see if I could still feel.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Coping with Solitude

missouriman

desperation, holding on to the inner self. all that you would have in a place like this.

like I say I am trying to get my photos to tell such a tail.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Dawning

missouriman

fallen, a glimps of things forgotten.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Disheveled Saint

missouriman

fallen.. that hits it. acceptence to what is going to happen. sad in a way.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Crawl

missouriman

the rope looks like a snake that she has control of or hurt.
alot of power in this one..
man, I wish that my pictures could convey the power that yours do.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Paranoia

missouriman

oh god, trying to imagin for a moment.
what was it like to live in such a place?
every one is insane. and you are trapped. un able to leave, screams are met with violence, and violation. day after day.

she says alot with her eyes.. scary.
good modle... tell her that please. she should look at acting. some how she reaches out past the lens.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Desperately Searching for Something

missouriman

love the one eye, love the way her finger nails almost match up to the scratches on the door..
she exudes, some sort of sexual insanity.
the touch of love and the ripping of flesh.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Lone Archer

missouriman

the hunted.. sweet..

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Contempt

missouriman

yeh, taking aim with that look..
she is creepy hot in this picture. (sorry) if that is not a good comment.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Fleeting Glimpse

missouriman

I wish that she had been taking aim in this one.

motts you are the man. awsome.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Invidious

missouriman

how weird that must have felt to do something like this and not remember it.
meghan, you did a good job here.
if that is your twin or you on the second plane of reality. good for you. scary to find how many of each of us that are out there huh. don't you want to ask her about her past? when I ran into a guy that looked just like me, we found that the life path that we had taken were identical... right down to how the girls we dated looked alike.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Huntress

missouriman

I was wondering when you would use a modle. good choice. I love how her dress gets more and more soiled during the shoot. now My wife wants to modle in some of the humble places that we find here in south dakota. I LOVE THE SCREAM.. don't know how you got that one to work out, but awsome.
we would love to come out on vacation and see some of these places.
you have my email.
thanks.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Snuffed

missouriman

wow, can you even think how messed up a person must have been to need that thing???
OMG.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Struggle

missouriman

yeh, uhhh like that

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Open Invitation

missouriman

strange, I wonder what that thing cost.
very complicated, concidering that there was a human laying there, being pulled, (it looks like many directions at the same time, scary)...

and the leveling, cranks or levers.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Traction

missouriman

hummm, guess there is not alot of nurses on here.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Angled Thermometer on Autopsy Table

missouriman

Yep, by the drop in temp you can figure out time of death.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Unhealthy Glow

missouriman

((There were bellows in back where one could push and pull a handle to "breathe" for a person inside.))

we had the power go out. the generator took what seemed to be for ever to start up.
running from room to room, I had two, to bag the patients by had, was the most stressfull 6 minutes of my life. yeh, hold your breath for 45 or so seconds, two quick breaths, then hold for 45 seconds. that was me running from one room, into the next and back. they lived..

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Respiration Rate

missouriman

after 10 years as a nurse I have never seen an iron lung, or even heard of one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung


that is creepy, I will do further research.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Iron Lungs

missouriman

motts,, motts,,

There is one more older iron lung in ((worse shape than these that he is still looking for. I hope to find an authentic electro-shock therapy device in somewhere other than a museum, myself.))
they are not museum peices, I am a nurse and have seen it first hand. I was a new grad, you hook them up, to monitor their heart, connect them to a vent, give them a drug so they can't move. and then they shock them. weird, 15 to 30 min later they are talking to you.
weirdest thing that I have ever done in nurseing... it just felt sooooooooo wrong.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

Smoke 'em If You Got 'em

missouriman

I bet the mirror is so they can look outside. gads..how awfull that must have been

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Bored in the USA

missouriman

oh god, I think I just figured it out.
mouth to mouth, or some sort of bellows.

ewwwwww

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Bored in the USA

missouriman

ok that answers how they reached in, but when they reached in. how did the patient keep breathing? where there something like really stiff gloves inside these holes? If the patient was very heavy it would take alot. of suction to get air into the lungs. Heck you might even end up with a whole body hicky..
that is just way to awful to even think about.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Tube

missouriman

just think of not being able to breath, the buzz of the pump. the sucking feeling on your body. the hope that air will enter your lungs. the pause, the suction lets off.
your hungry, you have to go to the bath room. the buzz of the pump. the next breath. 24 hours a day. the bed changes, the baths, the buzz of the pump and the next welcome breath.
your chapped neck. your sore body. you can move, you can fight. the buzz of the pump and that next breath.. you try to scream and all that comes out is a soft moan. Your body wasting away. laying in your own filth. the buzz.... I have no idea of how they cleaned up the patient. how they must have had to talk to them to stave off insanity. Being a nurse on one of those wards would be so hard. you would have to give 110 percent or get hard, very cold and hard to just work there. wow, I think I might cry.
I just can't imagine.

sorry that Picture is so awsome I fell into it. I can actually feel what it might be like to lay in it, as a nurse to take care of some one that is laying in it..

brovo.. mr motts. as a nurse there is not much that jumps out and grabs my soul like that just did.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

Stampede

missouriman

ever seen a buffalo up close?
they are huge, the rifle shot would not keep it from crushing them, in it's last moments. We have alot of people killed in custer state park. Some people try to pet the things like they are tame and in a zoo or something.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past