Tallguywrites ([info]tallguywrites) wrote,
@ 2009-06-09 09:52:00
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Dementia Ward
A ten page story about my time working on an hospital ward for elderly people. Many of the details here have been changed to protect the identity of the people portrayed.

Dementia Ward One



dementia two

dementia three

dementia four

Dementia five

dementia six

dementia seven

dementia eight

dementia nine

dementia ten

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[info]lurpak
2009-06-09 09:50 am UTC (link)
aw, this is great stuff - very moving.

My friend who is a care worker in a residential home says they have to check pockets before doing laundry in case one of the residents have put their own poo in them. It's heartening to read that the trend is away from using sedatives, but it must be an incredibly hard job for the staff sometimes.

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[info]tallguywrites
2009-06-09 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Yes, it's very hard. I get anxious just thinking about that kind of work.

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a bigger boy is picking on me
[info]lostcosmonaut
2009-06-09 12:47 pm UTC (link)
enjoyed this. It's v. economical

--mza.

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[info]jabberworks
2009-06-09 01:56 pm UTC (link)
That's excellent! A good read and very insightful. And the emotional pacing is interesting and unpredictable, which kind of fits with the matter-of-fact nature of the nursing job. Lovely drawing, I really like this one.

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[info]tallguywrites
2009-06-09 02:18 pm UTC (link)
It's actually a few years old. I was thinking about redrawing it, but now looking at it, the strips seems fine. Just a few errors to correct.

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[info]jabberworks
2009-06-09 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Cool! I don't think it needs redrawing either.

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[info]tallguywrites
2009-06-09 02:26 pm UTC (link)
There are other strips in this series. I plan to post one up every day this week.

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[info]jabberworks
2009-06-09 02:37 pm UTC (link)
Fabulous.

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[info]crazycrone
2009-06-09 02:37 pm UTC (link)
I've been really impressed with all the strips you've posted from this series. Hope you can have them in a collection eventually.

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[info]deepspacerhyme
2009-06-09 03:20 pm UTC (link)
wonderful!

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[info]finkenstein
2009-06-09 03:33 pm UTC (link)
Wonderful! and very sad.

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[info]knowmad
2009-06-09 10:20 pm UTC (link)
I could definitely read a whole book of this stuff, though I wouldn't say it would exactly make me happy ... it would be moving, though.

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[info]wjc0
2009-06-10 09:06 am UTC (link)
That's a great read.

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[info]eruditebaboon
2009-06-10 12:28 pm UTC (link)
Moving and sad. It's a subject most people don't like to think about, but which needs to be told.

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[info]eruditebaboon
2009-06-10 12:32 pm UTC (link)
Ah - I thought I recognised your style - I've coincidentally just started reading The Streets Of San Diablo on Activate too. Great stuff!

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[info]rubyrainstorm
2009-06-13 01:36 am UTC (link)
I was linked to your comic via Jess Fink. I work at a nursing home myself as a nutritional care aide, and everything you portrayed in this comic I have seen. It's an interesting line of work, that's for sure. There's so much sadness.

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[info]akitron
2009-06-13 09:53 pm UTC (link)
my great grandmother just died a year ago, and she had alzheimers for a couple years prior to her passing away. It was really awful to see her go from fairly healthy, playing canasta and other cardgames with my mom to asking us everytime we came over why we were all covered up (converts to islam and all that).
it is really hard to make sure they're okay all the time, which I why I respect my mother and everyone else in that field of work.

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[info]khagolgahan
2009-06-14 05:03 pm UTC (link)
I really enjoy your work.

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[info]ff00ff
2009-06-15 10:52 am UTC (link)
I don't have any memories of my paternal grandmother, she died when I was still a baby. The only time I hear about her is when my father is very drunk. When he talks about her going back and forth for stays at the hospital, seeming to come back better for a few days only to get worse than ever after just a little while, it's the only time he cries.

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[info]inechi
2009-07-08 05:08 am UTC (link)
hello tall guy i like your comics

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[info]arkady
2009-09-26 10:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm currently reading back through your older posts here after being much impressed by the bipolar one.

This one strikes a lot of chords with me; both maternal grandparents had dementia for years before they passed away, and my paternal grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago after suffering dementia for the last 5 years of her life.

I've also worked as a care assistant in a nursing home, and it can literally be a shitty job at times.

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[info]mewtopia
2009-10-16 06:13 am UTC (link)
Hi, I was directed here by [info]otana. Will look up your other stuff. It's great work, thank you for making them

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