Power in the Blood: On Going Back to Selling my Plasma
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This is a public post; I’d be immensely grateful if you would consider a paid subscription- and get access to regular, subscriber exclusives. Thank you! “The first five answers are true, the next three are false, and the last two are true.” The nurse is taking no chances. It’s 7:45AM on a Wednesday, and I’ve spent the previous two-and-a-half hours going through the deeply tedious process of being approved to go back to selling my plasma. I’ve been weighed and I’ve been poked. I’ve peed in a cup. I’ve answered (and, as I was encouraged to do, lied upon) a long questionnaire about my sexual history. I lied on it the last time I took it three years ago, and at least I can say with small satisfaction that nothing in my private life has changed since. Now, I need to pass a true-false quiz about plasma donation. The quiz is an FDA requirement, and the questions are ridiculously easy – but clearly, the fail rate was once too high, and the staff are here to make sure that they don’t let any hopeful donors fall at this last small hurdle.
Power in the Blood: On Going Back to Selling my Plasma
Power in the Blood: On Going Back to Selling…
Power in the Blood: On Going Back to Selling my Plasma
This is a public post; I’d be immensely grateful if you would consider a paid subscription- and get access to regular, subscriber exclusives. Thank you! “The first five answers are true, the next three are false, and the last two are true.” The nurse is taking no chances. It’s 7:45AM on a Wednesday, and I’ve spent the previous two-and-a-half hours going through the deeply tedious process of being approved to go back to selling my plasma. I’ve been weighed and I’ve been poked. I’ve peed in a cup. I’ve answered (and, as I was encouraged to do, lied upon) a long questionnaire about my sexual history. I lied on it the last time I took it three years ago, and at least I can say with small satisfaction that nothing in my private life has changed since. Now, I need to pass a true-false quiz about plasma donation. The quiz is an FDA requirement, and the questions are ridiculously easy – but clearly, the fail rate was once too high, and the staff are here to make sure that they don’t let any hopeful donors fall at this last small hurdle.