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kayleafeon · 2 days ago

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As a Canadian, I can't imagine having to donate plasma weekly to afford food. Like, what are you expected to do if the return fails and they can't return some of your red blood cells? I guess starve while you wait out the 60 days before you can donate again? What a dystopian capitalistic hell we live in.

do you actually realize how fucking dystopian it is that I'm donating plasma every week just to afford breakfast?

Or have we all become so desensitized to current displays of fascism that we've adopted the VERY naïve belief that "if there aren't bodies in the street then we're not in danger?"

#The reason I bring up the possibility of a failed return #basically banning you for two months #is because I've been donating weekly since mid December #(mainly just to have something scheduled so I don't just bedrot all Saturday and I get free snacks)#but anyways #they've had to try getting blood flow from both of my arms the past few weeks #because “my veins are stupid” (I agree with this assessment)#but last week it was extremely slow even when they got blood flow #so I got through the first 284mL of plasma collected stage and it switched to returning my red blood cells #but it was taking way longer than usual and eventually one of the nurses came over #and she was like “yea you're basically shit outta luck‚ we think it clotted somewhere in the tubes”#now I'm effectively banned until the end of March #if I was relying on that for extra income in order to afford food I'd probably actually go jump off a cliff (in Minecraft)#my mental health is so garbage that that would push me over the edge #saved for later #bring this up in therapy next week

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