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i donated plasma today, i feel white trash
#14374978 - 04/29/11 09:57 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i heard the plasma centers make hundreds of dollas off each bottle of plasma received from donors, and they're paying the donors and average of $20-50 ($50 if you're extremely lucky,) per donation..
it's not only that, but the vibe there always feels terrible. they just suck all the juices from you and treat you like scum
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
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How long does the process take? I feel like they should be paying a lot more than that. $50 doesn't go very far these days, let alone $20.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
#14375019 - 04/29/11 10:05 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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How much did you make?
It depends on the company. Before I went into anaphylactic shock (that ended my donation days), I made $40 per time. The company I used was not a seedy place. They were clean, had wide screen tvs, music to listen to, everything was clean, we got cookies and juice, and blood was screened before, and also they made sure that you were comfortable the whole time.
My mom always said I was a hypochondriac (funny, because I have an actual heart condition and have went to the hospital before for fainting, due to low blood pressure). Well, so I felt a bit funny after we started my session one time, and I thought whatever. Thanks, mom, for the conditioning. Then I started to not be able to hear very well. It'll pass, right? Then I started seen "snowflakes", blinked a few times, still there, then I tried to move my arm and talk, and nothing happened. An attendant came around and saw I was apparently "zombified" and unhooked me and gave me fluids. Then I got extra cookies and juice but I had to wait a few hours before I could drive home. And I still got paid!
That's happened to me a few times in my life before for random reasons (usually involves traveling over the mountains or flying). They didn't feel comfortable with me donating any more until a doctor okayed it. Well, I ended up moving, and I found another company, thinking it would be the same. OMG - disgusting???? It was a cockroach ridden pigpen.....and they only gave money based on your weight, and how much you ended up donating. So basically, unless you're a giant fat guy, totally not worth it.
I'd say before feeling like it's a white trash thing, check out other companies. There are some great ones out there, that make you feel like you get paid for you TIME, not feel like a whore.
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3 to 3.5 hours if it's your first time at a new center so they can process you into the system, give you a physical, run you over the rules etc.. after that each visit generally takes anywhere from 45-90 minutes..
$50 is actually the highest pay rate i've ever heard of any center offering and you only get that much for the first 5 times at this center in my area.. after that it's $20 the first visit per week and $35 the second.
honestly, i'm only doing it 4 more times at this place since it's $50 per.. anymore than that is just not worth hanging around in the shitty atmosphere and the measly pay imo.
and it's not that i don't want to help people, i think more people should help themselves.. i could be misinformed but i sorta doubt plasma donations are saving that many lives. if i'm wrong, then i apologize for teh ignorance..
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
#14375028 - 04/29/11 10:07 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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crack money?
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: Salomon]
#14375054 - 04/29/11 10:14 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Plasma is kind of the cooler thing to donate because it's usually used for creating treatments for diseases. I guess if you like to help science it's cool to do for free but I don't really consider $40 any real compensation for something that takes 2 hours of your time (adding on the waiting, then 90 minutes for your session). Plus with gas at the cost it is, if you don't live right next door, you gotta add that up too.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: sandi]
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aww, well that makes sense. the two places i've been to (this was the 2nd) have been extremely trashy.. and yeh, they pay you by your weight.. i made 50 today and will do the same for the next 4 visits.. i need money so it's worth whoring myself for now but after that i'm done!
but yeh, at these two places, if you aren't feeling well or something is going wrong, they make it their absolute last resort to help you.. it's ridiculous lol
hope everything's ok with your health now, that sounds scary! (the time when you got all whoozy)
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: Salomon]
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: Salomon]
#14375066 - 04/29/11 10:16 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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weed/shroom money , paying my dad back money, and just whatever other small things sound nice, and saving money
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
#14375069 - 04/29/11 10:16 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks Owls, I appreciate it I monitor my blood pressure at home so I can kind of tell if it's going to be "one of those days". Yeah I wouldn't do this long term either since those places are so bad!!!
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: fungivore]
#14375073 - 04/29/11 10:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I gave blood and got paid for it. I told my momz and she got mad. She told me I was basically prostituting myself and I should give blood for free like she does.
Then I went and got a sack and a brew.
I tell ya, drinking right after giving blood will help you get the most out of your beer.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
#14375080 - 04/29/11 10:19 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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if it was so you could score some ice you probably live in the same city as me.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: sandi]
#14375086 - 04/29/11 10:20 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i don't think it's the healthiest thing to be doing long term either... just intuition
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thelivingfreekshow said: if it was so you could score some ice you probably live in the same city as me. 
midwest? i'm pretty sure that's what %85 of people are there for
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thelivingfreekshow said: if it was so you could score some ice you probably live in the same city as me. 
midwest? i'm pretty sure that's what %85 of people are there for
Yup...surrounded by corn, cows, and ice heads...

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do you know who i am..? 
where you from?
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: sandi]
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sandi said: Plasma is kind of the cooler thing to donate because it's usually used for creating treatments for diseases. I guess if you like to help science it's cool to do for free but I don't really consider $40 any real compensation for something that takes 2 hours of your time (adding on the waiting, then 90 minutes for your session). Plus with gas at the cost it is, if you don't live right next door, you gotta add that up too.
It's actually a corporation that then sells the plasma to various companies to use. You are actually selling plasma. When you donate blood with the Red Cross or something similar you are actually DONATING not selling your time and fluids.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
#14375156 - 04/29/11 10:35 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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owls said: weed/shroom money , paying my dad back money, and just whatever other small things sound nice, and saving money 
Are you not smoking currently or do they not care about drugs in your system? I suppose maybe these don't affect plasma?
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: Rocker232]
#14375333 - 04/29/11 11:15 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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they don't care
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
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owls said: do you know who i am..? 
where you from? 
i live between the Missouri river and the Mississippi river, my state is the only one that has rivers as its entire west AND eastern borders...
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you're a methhead aren't you
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
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owls said: you're a methhead aren't you
No, sir...I prefer substances that grow in nature...n maybe acid..
I dont like that scenes women either...Never wanted to bang skeletor
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acid grows in nature faggot
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
#14375825 - 04/30/11 01:59 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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oh yeah? show me an acid plant...
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: sandi]
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sandi said: How much did you make?
It depends on the company. Before I went into anaphylactic shock (that ended my donation days), I made $40 per time. The company I used was not a seedy place. They were clean, had wide screen tvs, music to listen to, everything was clean, we got cookies and juice, and blood was screened before, and also they made sure that you were comfortable the whole time.
My mom always said I was a hypochondriac (funny, because I have an actual heart condition and have went to the hospital before for fainting, due to low blood pressure). Well, so I felt a bit funny after we started my session one time, and I thought whatever. Thanks, mom, for the conditioning. Then I started to not be able to hear very well. It'll pass, right? Then I started seen "snowflakes", blinked a few times, still there, then I tried to move my arm and talk, and nothing happened. An attendant came around and saw I was apparently "zombified" and unhooked me and gave me fluids. Then I got extra cookies and juice but I had to wait a few hours before I could drive home. And I still got paid!
That's happened to me a few times in my life before for random reasons (usually involves traveling over the mountains or flying). They didn't feel comfortable with me donating any more until a doctor okayed it. Well, I ended up moving, and I found another company, thinking it would be the same. OMG - disgusting???? It was a cockroach ridden pigpen.....and they only gave money based on your weight, and how much you ended up donating. So basically, unless you're a giant fat guy, totally not worth it.
I'd say before feeling like it's a white trash thing, check out other companies. There are some great ones out there, that make you feel like you get paid for you TIME, not feel like a whore.
this is the reason i can't donate blood. i lose blood pressure really easily, or whatever. it's not the sight of blood, i can handle that, it's really a blood pressure thing, i feel fine, try and stand up, and almost pass out.
amazing how much pain the human body generates. getting hurt is so much pain, and blood loss is so much pain. i wonder how that helps you 'survive'. oh well, i'm not responsible for evolution.
did someone say it takes 3.5 hours? never actually donated blood, just had it tested a billion times, in different amounts, never took that long, even watched my dads friend in the hospital get blood drawn 3 times, and in large amount, in the right veins it just comes right out, wonder what the 3 hours this guy is talking about is about?
like processing or something?
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owls said: acid grows in nature faggot
oh yeah? show me an acid plant... 
wow, i almost feel i should participate in this conversation, but nahh.
least that's what everyone used to remember me for, the 'natural lsd conversation guy'

asses 
no it doesn't grow in nature to answer the question. but some people think it does and that we have yet to find it because of it's biological properties. ehh.. who knows
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: imachavel]
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owls said: acid grows in nature faggot
oh yeah? show me an acid plant... 
wow, i almost feel i should participate in this conversation, but nahh.
least that's what everyone used to remember me for, the 'natural lsd conversation guy'

asses 
no it doesn't grow in nature to answer the question. but some people think it does and that we have yet to find it because of it's biological properties. ehh.. who knows 
Lsd doesn't but meth does. Meth is "more natural" than Lsd 
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: donteatasians]
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He was probably talking about ergot. Not LSD, but a precursor.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: NetDiver]
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Samurai Drifter said: He was probably talking about ergot. Not LSD, but a precursor. 
Likely, or lsa. Still, thelivingfreekshow's preference for substances that grow in nature doesn't exclude meth. He may be happy to find out he has something new on his menu. 
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: donteatasians]
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Samurai Drifter said: He was probably talking about ergot. Not LSD, but a precursor. 
Likely, or lsa. Still, thelivingfreekshow's preference for substances that grow in nature doesn't exclude meth. He may be happy to find out he has something new on his menu. 
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as soon as i find crystal meth growing from a plant or fungi ill bang that shit into my arm with a syringe from the rig weed plant.
I was referring to the substances consumed that occur naturally in the world with out mans alteration or processing...not precursors to a product that must be added to other things before the desired effect is achieved.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
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that doesnt make it meth, it makes it cold medicine.
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no we smoked ephedra sinica and made tea out of it as well
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That's what I thought, acacia berlandieri contains methamphetamine. 
I'm not saying you should do meth, just thought I'd throw out some shinfo.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: donteatasians]
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Link
It's got all kinds of goodies. It seems that there are two or three acacias species with similar alkaloid profiles.
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: donteatasians]
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Re: i donated plasma today, i feel white trash [Re: owls]
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Did u buy smack with the proceeds?
If not then you don't qualify for trash yet
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