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From: Greg.See-Kee@f631.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Greg See-Kee)
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Subject: Visitors - arranging them
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Date: 27 Jun 90 20:32:45 GMT
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 CS>  BTW, I was refered to an organization called
 CS>  Visiting Nurses Assoc. of Washington.  I called them and they 
 CS>  told me that they send nurses to the persons house and charge $85 
 CS>  a visit!!  That's not quite what I need.

I notice some replies to your request.  What are you expecting of
your visitors?

I make heavy use of telephone counselling agencies, in my
adjustment to my new lifestyle, as a disabled person.

The Salvation Army has hundreds of trained volunteers, and even a
home-visting & home-phoning service.

If I was desperate enough, I'm sure I could locate several other
religious-types to visit me as well.  And most (not all) of these
visitors are women, some of whom are also available (it seems)
for becoming friends, part-time nurses, etc.

In fact, if you are willing to withstand the religious barrage, I
don't think that you need ever experience a shortage of visitors,
friends, "do-gooders" (trained or otherwise).

I am not saying anything about the value or worth of these
visitors - just that they exist.

When I was a full-time crisis-counsellor, I would encourage many
of my clients to do just exactly what many of them had been ding
for all their independent lives anyway - moving from one
religious "do-gooder" to another.

This is fact has a very beneficial effect on EVERYONE involved in
the "cycle".  But I'll describe the full process another time,
another place.

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