Gurney

i dont want to think about the pain they went through
my brother heard alot about what they did there because he found some of the files

hyi vittu... silent hill

I feel so horrible on what happenned here. It just makes me so grateful for my mental health.

reminds me of silent hill also.

everythink the straps could be there so someone doesnt roll off?

that was the likely use misery... if you go to the hospital in an ambulance they restrain you a LOT more thoroughly than a couple of straps across the gut.

Kate what did the files say? Email me Buddytwou@aol.com

Seeing and hearing about places like this frightens me. I am obsessive-compulsive and have panic attacks from time to time. Makes me wonder if I would have wound up in one of these places instead of finishing college if I had been born in an earlier time. My great aunt was very capable of taking care of herself. Her only oddity was that she said she talked to people who lived in her attic. Everyone in town loved her. She was very capable. But her family sent her to one of these kinds of places. They gave her shock treatments. When she returned she never said anything about talking to people in the attic, though her sisters knew she still did. She was so terrified of being sent back.

did the place just get abonded n everyting left their?

"did the place just get abonded n everyting left their?"

...noun?

Mikeymisery, in most cases (99% of them) I would agree with you, however, after reading quite a bit about this place in particular, I lean heavily towards the "strapping people down" theory. I purposely read up on this place before entering this gallery.

Taubin,

Believe about 50% of what you read about this place. This was the first major court case for MR/DD facilities and while there were rampant abuses here due to insufficient funding and citizen apathy, the worst abuses were touted as normal everyday occurrences because it sold more newspapers and was flashier on the 5:00 news. The fact that the people of the state and country didn't care enough about this class of citizens to do anything about them (like vote for funding so they didn't have to live like this) was somewhat left out of all the stories. The other part that was left out was the legion of underpaid staff who worked with little pay under appalling conditions to take care of these folks and the families who were forced to leave family members behind because the state (i.e., the people reading this right now who can vote) didn't provide funding for home services.

However, bottom line - if someone - anyone - is placed on a gurney without straps where I work they will get a disciplinary write-up because it is unsafe to put someone flat on their back on a piece of moving equipment and move them around. If they additionally don't understand why they are on a gurney and are being moved about they are more likely to fall off. It's a safety precaution.

You EMS people out there - how often are you allowed to put someone on a stretcher or gurney and move them around without first securing them with those pesky restraints? Ever?

Soap box rant #243. :-)

Thanks for the clarification Lynne, I'll do more homework on this place.

~This and all information provided by me are my own personal thoughts, and in no way an expert testimony = P

Believe about half of what I say as well. Everyone has his or her own slant on things. :-)

If the bodies who used this trolley could talk. What stories would they tell us?

they would tell us their tragic life story. along with there friends that have died or are even still living among the human society and mined you this it is the same human society that put them in there in the first place.do you know what these people have gone through......NO........that is why they fell out of place in this wierd cruel society.....if you new what they went through than you would truly feel bad and you would not even think twice about saying lovley photo or great shot.