Home visits preparation

Take-home message Further reading Chapter 20 Home Visits Preparation During After... 

Prepare for more home visits initially, reducing these with time... 

In William Butler Yeats s 1897 story Rosa Alchemica, the narrator tells of a mysterious visit from his old friend Michael Robartes, who comes upon the narrator in his Dublin home as he is conducting alchemical experiments. They engage in a late-night conversation replete with exotic incense and strange visions. Robartes then convinces the narrator to join his Order of the Alchemical Rose and takes him to a secluded seashore, where the Order secretly houses its initiates and its large alchemical library. After preparing for a magical initiation ritual, the narrator relates ... 

Aaron and Olive Ihde continue to live in Madison in their charming house in the University Arboretum. Those who have visited their home have fond memories of the beautiful setting and warm hospitality that they encountered there. In recent years a number of graduate students have had the good fortune to participate in History of Chemistry evening seminars held in the Ihde home, sessions in which Olive Ihde joined Aaron and his students as an active participant. Those of us involved with the preparation of this book join with all of their other friends and associates in wishing them both many more happy and productive years. 

Abramson continued to be quite friendly. He invited me to visit him at his home later in the year, to eonverse further. When I arrived at his house in Syosset, Long Island, he gave me an unpublished draft of a report prepared for the CIA fifteen years earlier. He also talked about his involvement in the treatment of Frank Olson, the CIA biologist who had been slipped an LSD mickey in 1953 by MK-ULTRA ehief Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. He beeame paranoid and two weeks later ended up dead on the sidewalk ten stories below his hotel room - allegedly a suieide. 

No, not like normal people do. My social life predominandy takes place online or over the phone. I go for visits only after making preparations and taking my air purifier along with me, but that s mostly in the summer so that we can sit in the yard. Going into other people s homes without my helmet is for me no longer possible (see Chapter 8 About Protective Measures), given all the chemical substances that are present in a normal home. 

Abbey remained in the hospital for almost 8 months, with the final 6 weeks being in a live-in centre preparing to return home, which she visited on weekends. With the hospital so far from home. Abbey s mother was off work for the nearly 4 months that she spent in Melbourne. At first she lived with her twin sister, but the pressure she was under created a rift from which she had to withdraw. (Fortunately, the rift has proved temporary.) Abbey s father spent the first 3 weeks in Melbourne before... 

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