Buckets

This reminds me of when I used to go with my father to the hospital's mezzanine. He would enter readings in logs of boilers and such. Located on the mezzanine was the furnace they used to burn body parts. Severed limbs, placentas etc.

I have to admit, "limb store" made me giggle... I picture a bunch of arms and legs hanging off of racks in the ceiling, with maybe a few torsos thrown in for good measure. :)

Don't blame you for not opening it Motts. Yikes.

OK, THIS sign is pretty darned swell as well . . . . . . .

I love the bucket in this shot, it's so colorful when everything else is so bleak. It's a good focus Motts.

Limb store. This is giving excellent, excellent mental images. How much do you think a leg would go for?

Um . . an arm and a leg?

Lynne that was bad :) i laughed too when I saw "Limb store", it kinda gives me the creeps too

Well at least they found a use for them. There is a saying "He/she was legless" - drunk, full as a fairies phonebook.

Looks like a paint bucket lol

When was the last time you went shopping, hmm?

Great pic, Motts :P

i was thinking bait bucket myself......

Dag, Lynne beat me to the "arm and a leg" joke.

I wouldn't look in the bucket either. :( I'm guessing it's one of those yellow buckets from the labour room; if so, um...eww.

*smacks Lynne with an overcooked fettuccine noodle* bad Lynne! bad bad!
I almost swallowed my Dew wrong from the back-laugh!

love thinking of all the arms and legs sticking out of the buckets

When we need tissue mounted on micro slides, we send them across the parking lot to the hospital. Once, after I had made the trek I sat in the Histo-Path lab chatting with the techs there and just happened to glance at the Bio-bag sitting next to my elbow. It contained an amputated portion of a leg. The owner had diabetes it had become gangrenous and needed to be removed before it could spread. Anyhow we then launched into a lengthy conversation about limb storage...

Why is this stuff just left there? LOL I can't help but giggle to myself how stuff is JUST left behind when hosptials close! Anyway, I would have opened it. I could not have left without opening it.

ok... theres too many signs...i bet people just printed labels and put them threr

If that bucket is from the labour ward, what do you think is in it?? Kinda worrying to think it may of had/has wee bodies in it :(

awww i would have wanted to open it... but i guess that would be risky...

ha. wonderful...

Having given birth myself, the idea of these once-important parts of my/my child's anatomy being slopped into buckets and carted off is .. Odd. There are certain things you just don't think about when you go through something that natural and typical. Which leads me to wonder the eventual fate of all of the stuff that was lost during birth.. Blood, placenta, etc. ..

wonder how much they charge per limb??

Well, that's just... great... Bright yellow and green bucket in a huge, gray place. Glad you didn't open it and take a picture =D

There are now companies which will store umbilical cord blood for the family's future use in the event of certain diseases. You pay an initial fee, and then monthly storage fees.

Some people bury the placenta, and later plant a tree above the burial spot. In some cultures, people (often just the mother) eat the placenta. This is called placentaphagia, and I thought I had heard of it, but thought maybe it was just some nightmarish idea I had, so I did look it up before I wrote this post. One person who claims to have eaten placenta is Tom Cruise (in an interview with GQ Magazine).

I worked for NHS housekeeping for a while in the pathology department. Buckets like these were often used for larger body-parts that were to be disected (they used to soak them in preservative. Later they'd imbed the tissue in a waxy resin and slice it for examining under a microscope). There was a similar bucket (of a different colour I think) in one of the offices I cleaned. It had a leg in it that had been forgotten about ten years earlier... Because they weren't sure what to do with it the thing just sat there, under the desk, waiting for somebody brave to come along and go to the trouble of disposing of it (and also of explaining why it was still there). This was in 2004.

Holy cow - how could you NOT want to lift that lid and see what's inside? (WHAT AM I SAYING!?)

sneb..............are you SERIOUS?????????

I would atleast got a stick to see if it was heavy or heard something move inside...

I am a labor and delivery nurse and you get to see ALOT of funky stuff like this. I work nights at a small hospital. Sometimes you have to go to pathology with a specimen, such as a placenta or even a fetus. Well, the pathology fridge is actually a regular old Fridgidaire. Sometimes you have to move specimens around to make room for yours. My colleague had warned me that there could be an arm or leg in there wrapped in plastic that I would have to move.

I agree I would have to open it. Have to.

I would have opened that sucker right up.