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(I wrote Eleanor Friede a letter, agreeing to purchase the film for Emir, as both she and Tam have suggested. It’s to be shipped to the house where we can store it. In the meantime Eleanor will try to place Emir with some house; she’s talked with Tam about doing this. We are grateful for their help.

(After Rusty and Hal left we napped, changed dressings, etc., and before we knew it I was hurrying to get supper and do other chores so that we’d have time for a session. Hal and I both had noticed almost a marked improvement in Jane’s condition, especially in her hands, knees and feet. I think the vitamin therapy is helping considerably here, and seems to be following the results listed in Dr. Van Fleet’s book. Jane too is quite pleased. Indeed, her hands look better than they have in probably a couple of years, I’d say; the swelling seems to be largely gone. My idea is that if Jane will continue the vitamin therapy—a term I don’t particularly like—that in a couple of months she might achieve some good results, for as I explained to her, I think the key to curing the decubiti lies in increased mobility, especially in the knees. This will give her more freedom to move in bed.

(Long pause, eyes closed.) These are like containers for behavior, however. For some time, as you became involved with the hospital and medical habits and people, Ruburt in particular grew very frightened. He began to look at his own experience—to some extent, now—through that medical cast. (Long pause.) He saw how unfortunate its results could be. You were both quite aware of the fact that to almost anyone else there is no blame attached to following such a premise. Ruburt became very frightened, however, as he saw where such a trend could lead.

I will indeed end the session, knowing that the session adds to Ruburt’s reassurance, and that the session alone, on its own, releases certain kinds of highly beneficial energy. My fondest regards, and my interest, or inclination toward the both of you follows you, whether, say, we have a session or not. With a bit more relaxation, however, you can have as many or as few as you want for a while, for your individual and joint energies are indeed replenished in such fashions.

You are beginning a new time in your lives, of greater understanding, compassion for yourselves and others, so hold with it. Again I bid you a fond good evening, the both of you.

Neither of you had much experience of a particular nature in dealing with the medical aspects of the world. To some extent your own do-it-yourself attitudes kept you from such experience, and as long as Ruburt lacked it, and as long as you lacked it (with much more emphasis than I’d heard Jane use as Seth in a long time), you would both still have doubts about the nature of our own work as applied to such matters—and this goes beyond the confines of our work in ways I will try to clear later.