Monday, Nov. 11, 1985
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course you cannot do that," Joe said. "Part of it is realizing we're going to become close to these patients and become friends with them — some of them we already are friends with.
"I just try to remind myself periodically that that will happen. And I try to remind myself that you don't know when it will happen. It could be a long time, it could be soon.
Because of that pressure, Max said, not all volunteers want or are suitable to be Buddies.
Hillard said, "It can be real intense. Everyone is screened, and some people simply don't have the ability to empathize properly."
Max said, "Some people can't handle the idea of death or approaching death.
"And you have to realize that we're dealing here with issues of abandonment in a way, because you can form a very close relationship with this person with AIDS, knowing all the time that he's probably going to die and probably going to die within two years or less."
Volunteers who are not Buddies work on fund-raising projects, provide transportation, cook meals and clean homes.
The closeness still exists, said Virginia Allen, director of Good
AIDS education needed, doctor says
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
No cases of AIDS have been reported in Lawrence, but the community needs to prepare itself, William Wade, a doctor of osteopathy in Topeka, said recently.
"There are people there who will be diagnosed within the next 24 months." Wade said.
"Education is the best way to allay hysteria. As people become aware, their fears tend to ascend."
No formal effort to educate the Lawrence community exists, although a group of residents met recently to discuss forming an AIDS project.
"It was a bull session mainly," said Dan Zimmerman, a coordinator of the meeting. "One of the things we need to start doing is getting information together.
"But right now we have no notion of what we will do."
Lynn Heller, supervisor of Health Education at Watkins Hospital, can answer questions concerning AIDS and provide referrals, said Jim Strolb, Watkins director.
Information also is available through groups in other cities and through statewide organizations:
The Public Health Service has established a national telephone line that provides a recorded message on AIDS and important developments. Toll free (800) 342-AIDS.
The Topeka-Shawnee County Health Department will sponsor a public forum on AIDS at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 20, at the Health Center Auditorium, 1615 W. Eighth St., Topeka. Topics will include transmission of AIDS at risk groups and antibody testing. (913) 233-5141.
The Kansas AIDS Network provides information for homosexual communities in Kansas health professionals and other interested groups through seminars and pamphlets. (913) 357-7499
■ The HTLV-III Information Line, established by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, provides information about AIDS, the HTLV-III antibody test (HTLV-III is the virus thought to cause AIDS) and test site locations. Toll-free (300) 823-0040.
Gay Talk, Kansas City, Mo., answers questions and provides referrals. (816) 931-4470.
The Gay Rap Telephone Line, Toppea, answers questions and provides referrals. (913) 233-6588, between 9 p.m. and midnight
The Topека AIDS Project works with and gives support to people with AIDS and AIDS-related comorbidity. A weekly support group meets at 7:30 p.m. Mondays. (913) 357-4140
the refrigerator — the whole thing "
Samaritan, a project similar to TAP that serves metropolitan Kansas City.
the refrigerator — the whole thing.” AIDS is a condition characterized by a specific defect in the body’s natural immunity against disease. Because their immune systems are suppressed, AIDS are susceptible to a variety of rare illnesses that a healthy body can easily fight.
"In a lot of ways there's nothing more personal than cleaning someone's house," she said. "You can't be emotionally removed from someone whose toilet you're cleaning." And "a lot of cleaning to do, volunteers say."
"When I say clean, I don't mean vacuuming and dusting, necessarily," said Judy, a Buddy supervisor who asked that only her first name be used. "Rather, it's the kind of cleaning you do in the kitchen and bathroom with Clorox, and clean out
And so Buddies scour and scrub.
And they make sure that if they have sore throats or coughs, or even athlete's foot, they stay away.
"One thing a person with AIDS must be extremely careful about is getting infected by these OF's, or opportunistic infections." Max said. "And mold in the refrigerator or on food that is aging, or the furry stuff that gets under the shelves or drawers, can be a risk."
Fungal infections can be real fatal, to an AIDS patient. Judy
The volunteers learned in the training sessions that they were more likely to infect than be infected by a person with AIDS.
"As I explain to the nurses," Shaffer said, "even though we're very frightened, perhaps, about our own safety, we probably do present much more of a risk to the patient than he does to us."
Because of that, hospitals are working toward the same goal as TAP volunteers — minimizing the time spent in the hospital.
"Hospitals are not the safest places in the world because of the volumes of people that come through," Shafer said. "These patients are much safer, as far as acquiring infections, at home."
"You want to get the person home, back to his family, his significant others, so that he can live as normal a life as possible."
Planes
The Buddies do everything possible to accomplish that goal. For exam-
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Melvin Greyson, a spokesman for the Parippany-based Nabisco, did not know whether anyone other than the two pilots was aboard the jet. He said the plane was was bound from Morristown Airport, about 25 miles away, for Teterboro Airport, about five miles from the crash site.
According to transcripts of radio conversations, the pilot of the jet said he saw the Piper Cheroke, and the pilot of the smaller plane said he was clear of the area where the jet was supposed to be, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Peter Nelson.
off a four-square mile area encom passing both communities.
Mary Zakarian, of Fairview,
whose home was struck by
wreckage, said "I saw light and
I thought it was World War III."
ple, they try to make everyday tasks simpler.
"If a person is trying to stay in the home, sometimes the difference whether they can eat or not might be a microwave oven." Hillard said.
More than anything else, support groups such as TAP try to improve the quality of life outside as well as inside the hospital.
Allen said, "We're trying. We're making mistakes, but we're done."
"People are trying to do something, AIDS isn't the plague." Tomorrow: A profile of two AIDS patients.
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