well well well life has certainly become more interesting
My car failed inspection. So what you might say? so... thats the deal braker. we arn't putting anymore money into my hunk of junk. So with out a car I can't go to work. But thats all part of the plan, with out the job I'll finaly be broke enough to qualify for medical assistance. I can get my lungs looked at (the cough hasn't left) I can get my ankle looked at, I can get on a therapy program for my weight, and I can finaly return to treatment for depression...
I know it's for the best but losing my income (though my mom is sure my doctor will have me go on dissability) and my mobility is hard to take
look to obtain a bicycle, to get mobility back (at a slightly cheaper rate :-) ?
Perhaps take advantage of the lack of ability to work, and see if you can work on your job prospects somehow? See if you can do some night courses or something?
There's always a bright side. Even if it's just the b*stards coming back with a torch to give you more work. Or the headlights of an oncoming train... :-)
a bike won't help in the short run, since I'm an hours drive away from anything, but once the move goes threw it should be much better.
and I am working on bettering my education. I'm going threw the process to get a tribel education waiver from the mic macs.
*hugs*
though I doubt it'll be a well spring of cash once I get my cook book finished it should bring in a little bit
Just take care now
when money is short its truly sad how many things slip by that you should really take care of before they get even more expensive.
minor car troubles which can be fixed for money you dont have can lead to life threatening problems which leave you with a pile of fiberglass and rubber with the resale value of ABC gum. this immediately presents the issue of needing to buy a new car for a whole lot more then the original minor repair would have cost, and being unable to travel at all for a while. this is why theft of cars is 'grand theft' because your not only stealing something thats worth a shitload you are also stealing someones ability to provide for themselves and live in a country where walking from work to the grocery store could be five hours in the rain.
i had my own problem with that, it appears that any vehicle i touch begins to urinate either gas, oil, or antifreeze/coolant when you park. i never have the money to fix this, but now i have to sell my blood twice a week for the next three years to pay for a 2001 model dodge and the peace of mind knowing im not going to blow up when i take my duaghter to grandmas house.
same thing with the doctor, little things like that cough could run you a two or three hundred dollar doctor bill and about half as much for meds for a few months, but if it goes unchecked you could develop something nasty, debilitating, or fatal. sadly misdiagnosis can almost be worse, your being billed for treatment for the wrong thing which will drain your pockets, screw you up even worse, and whatever it is that IS wrong with you goes unchecked.
again i have my own examples to listen too- my grandfather spent the last fourteen years of his life battling cancer and speaking with a hole in his larynx because back then swampfolk didnt believe in going to the doctor untill you passed out, most of my uncles have had fast acting deaths which had roughly a two or three year period before hand where a regular doctors visit could have prevented it all, and i have a freaky blue spot on my forearm....last time i saw a doctor (two years ago) he said he had no clue what it was but i shouldnt worry unless it got bigger or got a lump. guess what? theres a lump, and i have no insureance, cash, or other bodily fluids i can sell at the moment to pay for a doctors visit.
being poor sucks.
in fact, is sucks the *beep* off a dead mans *beep* with *beep* *beep* taco *beep* *beep* the *beep* goat *beep* *beep* *beep* and the liberal use of fire.
QuoteThe big thieves hang the little ones.
Just out of interest... how much blood are you selling?
I was under the impression that, while you could lose a pint or so with few ill effects, you need a couple months to recover - hence why donating blood is limited to no more frequently than every 3 months.
The real money's in donating plasma. Hurts like hell, but you get hundreds of dollars per go, so it can't be all bad.
Quote from: Kenji on January 27, 2007, 12:10:34 PM
The real money's in donating plasma. Hurts like hell, but you get hundreds of dollars per go, so it can't be all bad.
I was actualy tempted by a radio ad about that very subject... I came up with a plan I figured me and my sis could make a tradition of it twice a month we could head up to portland I'd treate her to a meal and we'dsee a movie or hit the maine mall. I was on the verge of seaking driving directions when I remembered something.
I'm not allowed too... so thats out of the question
Quote from: thegayhare on January 27, 2007, 12:34:01 PMI'm not allowed too... so thats out of the question
Are you sure that's not just whole blood with the Red Cross?
no cause it's part of the fda's regulations for donating
it also applies to sperm donations or anything else
hell I bet I can't even be an organ donar
Oh, right... the propoganda crap...
Hmm. I still say you should do a bake sale.
Quote from: thegayhare on January 27, 2007, 05:58:44 PM
no cause it's part of the fda's regulations for donating
it also applies to sperm donations or anything else
hell I bet I can't even be an organ donar
exactly what regulations are you talking about? Have you been exposed to some form of disease?
There are perfectly good reasons for most of the screening, you've always heard about people who get STD's and other fluid-transfered deseases just because a blood place doesn't turn down certain applicants who haven't have tests done. And I'll never accept blood from places that give money, know why? Same problem, only now the people have an incentive to LIE about their history of exposure.
Blood can be both salvation and damnation.
"Well, Jimmy that blood saved your life, but now you only have a few weeks to live because the blood you got had STD's"
"wha...but I'm only ten years old!"
"Sucks to be you kid, but we needed blood bad so we looked the other way."
no I haveen't been exposed to any desise or Std I'm compleatly clean
I can't give blood or anything else because I'm gay and I've had sex once in my life
no matter what tests they preform I can't do a damn thng because ofthe blanket ban
it's nice how that works, isn't it. :-/
Straight males can sleep around with 50 people. Yet they're still fine, even if each of those fifty is just as promiscuous, and half of them sleep with gay males. Yet the gay males are prohibited, even if they're clean.
Isn't it nice how things are so even handed and fair? :-/
... mind if I borrow that knife, chef? I have a few fillets I'd like to make. Out of politicians....
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 28, 2007, 08:06:40 AM
... mind if I borrow that knife, chef? I have a few fillets I'd like to make. Out of politicians....
Oh, I thought you were going to sell
their blood.
About the only thing it'd be useful for is blood and bone.
and even then I wouldn't bet on it not killing the trees.
they dont let you donate because your homosexual? thats odd, the center i go to just puts you on an 'at rist' list and tests your blood, then puts you on a waiting period to confirm the tests before you donate. maybe it has to do with the state or the neighborhood possibly even the center you donate at or something.
for anyone intrested go to the website for 'biolife plasma centers' and they should show you a map of close locations. they can bleed you twice a week, and asside from being stabbed the only bad parts are that durring the process they filter the red cells out so sometimes it hurts or can bruise when they pump them back in, and the sailene they squirt into you at the end is reaaaaly cold. as far as pay you get a set ammount for donateing once (20 dolalrs, or more depending on location ive heard some do as much as 40) and an extra ten dollars if its twice in one week, most centers even pay you an extra five bucks a visit if you come durring certan times to encourage people to arrive when they actually have the staff to handle you- so that means you can get at least 60 bucks a week, or more if your in a higher demand area. be sure to eat a decent meal before being stabbed, and drink a whooole lotta water, they like to keep everyone juicy and moist.
why do they pay you? first its used for transfusions, obviously, but they usually get way more then they need for that. a good deal of it isnt needed for infusions so they use it to make vaccenes. however the big money is that whatever they dont use for that get used to make cosmedics, but dont tell anyone you heard it from me.
yeah, next time you put on makeup or see someone else wearing it, think of me bleeding into a bottle.
QuoteDreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
I believe your problem, TGH, is more local than anything else. Frankly I think a majority of the centers act more along the lines of Brunhidden's.
Also, my opinion on pay-for-fluids places still hasn't changed.
Selling blood was one of the few routes we never went when super poor, although for no really good reason.
I'll sell someone else's blood, fairly happily.... :-)+)
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 28, 2007, 08:06:40 AMStraight males can sleep around with 50 people. Yet they're still fine, even if each of those fifty is just as promiscuous, and half of them sleep with gay males. Yet the gay males are prohibited, even if they're clean.
That's retarded, smallminded, and discriminating.
Quote from: Tapewolf on January 28, 2007, 08:30:42 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 28, 2007, 08:06:40 AM
... mind if I borrow that knife, chef? I have a few fillets I'd like to make. Out of politicians....
Oh, I thought you were going to sell their blood.
I have a better idea: sell their organs on the black market. Just don't sell their brains or their heart: those parts have had so little exercise, that they have shriveled up into small black clumps of flesh.
Quote from: Vidar on January 29, 2007, 12:43:37 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 28, 2007, 08:06:40 AM
Straight males can sleep around with 50 people. Yet they're still fine, even if each of those fifty is just as promiscuous, and half of them sleep with gay males. Yet the gay males are prohibited, even if they're clean.
That's retarded, smallminded, and discriminating.
I believe, Vidar, that that was my point. :-)
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 29, 2007, 01:14:39 PM
Quote from: Vidar on January 29, 2007, 12:43:37 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 28, 2007, 08:06:40 AM
Straight males can sleep around with 50 people. Yet they're still fine, even if each of those fifty is just as promiscuous, and half of them sleep with gay males. Yet the gay males are prohibited, even if they're clean.
That's retarded, smallminded, and discriminating.
I believe, Vidar, that that was my point. :-)
I was just agreeing with you. :U
Quote from: Vidar on January 29, 2007, 01:17:45 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 29, 2007, 01:14:39 PM
I believe, Vidar, that that was my point. :-)
I was just agreeing with you. :U
You were? Oh, my mistake. It wasn't exactly as clear as it might have been. Oh, well. Back to the old grind... :-)
Quote from: Valynth on January 28, 2007, 02:02:52 PM
I believe your problem, TGH, is more local than anything else. Frankly I think a majority of the centers act more along the lines of Brunhidden's.
I'm sorry to say this but your wrong this is not a local thing this is a national thing
From Biolifes own website
QuoteBioLife Plasma Services is licensed and regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and must comply with strict FDA regulations for donor safety and product quality.
from the FDA's guidlines on Blood and Plasma donations
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any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 can not donate blood or plasma.
So I could have had all the sex I wanted two years before I was born but because 3 years back I enjoyed a wonderfull night with some one I loved I can NEVER donate blood or plasma, (though truthfuly that wasn't the actual disqualifing act but we don't need to go into that) or who knows what else... the FDA has been expanding the ban lately as I mentioned earlier. This is something thats been eating at me for ages, not just because I can't sell blood thats a recent thing but becaus eI can't do jack, When there is a need for doners do to an emergancy or what have you I can't help... I can't do a damn thing I don't have money to dobnate and while I might have time now how could I get someplace to volenteer, about all I had was blood and because I'm a freak well thats just to bad.
Do you know the guidlines for letting sex workers donate blood is looser then for gay men
I E-mailed Biolife asking for clarification that hasn't come threw yet
sorry this isn't the place for this I know it's just a sore spot with me
sorry to be a bother...
Hmmm I wonder if this would interfear with my donation scheme in my get thin quick plan
*hugs* Damn, I wish life wasn't so screwed up like this. It's not fair...
Stupid rules sucks. Everyone (except those who can change them) knows they are stupid but you still have to follow them. >:[
Bad luck sucks too, so I hope things get better for you.
I do think the whole thing is stupid, especially since they are required to do so much testing on the blood.
I can *kind of* understand why the ban was first put in place- AIDS was just starting to come around, we didn't really understand it, and many people (not just homosexuals) were more promiscious. It is more likely for a homosexual male to contract HIV from a partner though sex than a heterosexual, but a lot has changed since the ban was enacted.
Ryan White and the groups he worked with did quite a bit for testing standards and HIV/AIDS awareness, and a lot more people have much safer sex (although the Republicans would obviously try to change that, given their humping the abstinence only teachings, but that's not the point.)
While it *might* have been defendable at one point in the history of blood donation, blanket banning such a large group of people is just silly, especially since they have to do tests on it anyway to clear it. That's just my long winded way of saying that it's all just really stupid.
Quote from: Damaris on January 30, 2007, 11:36:41 PMmany people (not just homosexuals) were more promiscious. It is more likely for a homosexual male to contract HIV from a partner though sex than a heterosexual, but a lot has changed since the ban was enacted.
Well, it's more likely to transmit STDs through anal sex, but I'm pretty sure that the sex and orientation of the participants is irrelevant.
And I think you're right about the promiscuity.
But I think I'd rather ask TGH if he has a timeline for his book.
There -is- another side - I enquired of someone when I donated once.
The tests that they do take time. Often, more time than they have between the donation and the usage of the blood. Also, the blood gets put into a pool (something about needing 4 or 8 units to fill the separator machine to split out the plasma, etc - each unit of blood makes up about 5 or 6 different segments, each of which gets used separately. eg, plasma, white cells, red cells, nutrients, etc etc...)
So, if they get a unit that tests bad, they usually have to throw away three or four units of blood, and clean out the separator machine again.
Let's not forget the other side effect of HIV being such a sneaky sod - it can take -years- for it to show up in the bloodstream. Certainly it can take upwards of 3 months for the tests to come back positive, or even come back negative and the -next- set of tests come back positive, on a new sample...
Given that, I can see how they'd be cautious. Which doesn't make it any better for poor TGH. :-/
Sorry to breing this up again
Quote from: superluser on January 30, 2007, 11:59:41 PM
But I think I'd rather ask TGH if he has a timeline for his book.
For my cook book? No not yet I'm still waiting on a few imaes that haven't been sent in yet
Quote from: llearch
Several health reasons
I've heard all that hon and I understand the need be carefull but if they are that concered why don't they ban all blacks from donating blood too?
I'm not saying that to be bigotted I'm just being truthfull since to quote a black leader
QuoteEight years later, the silence is still loud and the numbers are worse. Blacks now account for nearly half of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses and contract AIDS at a rate 10 times that of whites. Sixty-four percent of all American women living with HIV/AIDS are black. AIDS is the leading cause of death for black women, 25 to 34.
*wince* that's information that isn't, generally speaking, waved about in the media.
Whereas gays being mor elikely to have HIV is something the media cna use to sell papers.
*sigh* People suck.
*sighs*
sorry hon I guess I'm just a little bitter
Reading that artical at the same time I recived my reply from my Bio life inquery just pilrd up to upset me
But it's like the greys anatomy thing
a back actor called a gay coworker a (I am not smart enough to use polite words) and got called on it, and he get off with apology (did it again later and appologises again, rinse and repeat maybe)
now if it was a white actor calling a black one there own infamous slur he'd have been fired so fast his head would spin
ehh sorry I shouldn't take this ou on you hon
s'ok, I can understand why you're bitter. I was sympathising, actually...
We should pobably leave it at that, otherwise we'll bore everyone else again. :-)
i find it a little odd that i have no problems with blacks, many of my greatest friends online are either so homosexual you could roast marshmallows on them or bisexual to the point that not even inanamate objects are safe anymore. why do i think its odd? cause i was raised in a swamp in an extremely rasist envirionment and was actually taught to think that blacks, mexicans, pretty much all of asia, indians, native american indians, everyone from a country ending in 'stan', the french, anyone who is polish, the states of illinois and texas, anyone with long hair, males who have piercings, women who wear makeup, anyone who listens to music other then polka, and so fourth and so on...well, i was taught to hate them, taught all the slurs, think myself better then them, and generally be a illiterate redneck hick who thinks people who love each other are against my religion. it didnt take, probably because i knew my father was a dick, or perhaps because i realised i was being raised in a freaking swamp and chances are anyone who has not mastered the use of indoor plumbing is not qualified to provide me with lifes philosophy.
however i still dislike the french, im not sure why and i apologise to any french here.
in a way racisim has been defeated, its not gone, just defeated. why do i say this? because almost anywheres you go even the bigest and meanest buttheads have to watch thier tounge and know that if they say the 'N' word as an insult to someones face the closest five white guys are going to bite his head off. its become so taboo in our culture (except in certan hickvilles, my own father uses the term "sand n------" to reffer to anyone from the middle east, india, egypt, morocco, greece, southern russia, and all the surrounding areas. hes the most unracist racist you will ever meet) that uttering racial slurs anywhere but in the presense of other biggots gets you labled as such a hatefull moron that everyone treats you as though you yourself were a black man in 1750.
however that is not to say we can whine about statistics, and the day that a newspaper headline reads "minorities and females perfectly represented in college enrollment and graduation" is the day i chop off my own foot and beat people with it untill im arrested. as one man said "it is not that blacks are statisticaly poor, its that the poor are statistically black. the distinction is extremely important", to those who understand that remark, good for you. for those who dont understand that remark, try finding a mostly black neighborhood on the poor end of the spectrum and go around start talking to people untill you draw your own conclusions. then try walking around a mostly hispanic neighborhood and talk to people, the conclusions you make will be pretty intresting.
anyone here think part of the problem is the rappers who glorify life on the street and make it seem as though its normal and expected to have gang affiliations, beat any women you know, shoot whoever makes you angry, and get so high you dont care youve got six starving kids. this kind of steriotype wouldnt be so bad if it werent pumped into the culture so thorougly that kids actually treat anyone trying to get an education and a decent job as "acting white" and a traitor. gee, your complaining you have no money and society screws you...but most of the people who complain the loudest are under the philosophy that things like an education or a career path with upwards mobility are somehow wrong... it makes me feel even more sorry for the people who really are screwed over.
anyone here remember a while ago when a rapper told his listeners to boycott crystal champagne? how diluted is he to think his age 7-25 demographic statistically living in low income neighborhoods would be able to get a 200 dollar bottle of fizy liquor anywyas. besides, that brand is in continual short supply, a boycott does nothing because theres already far more people trying to buy then champagne availeable.
but whats worse is when 'fiddy cent' twice proclaimed that oprah winfrey was not black enough.... am i the only white guy who feels offended at this? oprah actually goes out of her way to do great things such as building public welfare facilities in poor countries, adopts impovereshed children, and goes around like some pixie with too much smile spraying glitter at people. the rapper in question spends his millions on really big mansions and gaudy jewelry instead of doing anythin amiable at all. fiddy cent then goes on to make a fool of himself in stating that the only black experience is the monolithic poor in the street kind of life where people get shot and squirt out babies like nobodys business. thats just insulting to blacks, and he should really think about it the next time hes making 'rhymes' up in his multimillion dollar mansion in mansionland where the population is about 1% black. i think oprah winfrey should accuse fifty cent as not being black enough, cause im curious what people would say.
*sigh* and after all that, in todays world where someone on the other side of the world is a second away, with all our medicine, the only weapon we really have against AIDS and HIV is education. and people arent educated. as an example there were missionaries who went to affrica many years ago to give away free vasectomies to try and curb the population explosion before everyone had a huge family on a dirt farm and starved. nobody wanted one, but not for the reason you think- even after being told what it was twice they had no idea what it was. the missionaries then offered to give away free transistor radios with each vacetomy....the line was enormous, and you knew nobody understood what happened because they GOT BACK IN LINE after they got thier radio. is there much chance that someone who dosent understand that a surgery to sever the flow sperm from your testicles will cause you to be serile will still understand how AIDS is contracted? theese people need schools, and not schools whose chief concern is the beatitudes or praise the great nation of *this weeks militiant dictatorship* in failed attempts to brainwash kids instead of teaching them to improve their life.
heh, how many people out there know juuuust little enough to think a condom can stop AIDS? a whole buttload, but it stops the AIDS virus like tissue paper stops mountan dew, and many of them went through school systems with sexual education classes even. just think of those who had no classes who dealt with it? theres still many people who are otherwise inteligent people yet believe things like you cant get pregnant on your first time, jumping backwards three times makes a fertilised egg just go away, only homosexuals have STDs, going to a clinic can make any venerial diseases you have just go away, and even stupider ones that sound like old wives tales of the 1800s.
i want all of you to go out there, hug a gay person, and say something that sounds inteligent about ecenomic imbalance in your country. go on, very few of them bite and the economy is so stupid that anything sounds inteligent in comparison.
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... I would, but the great mass of humanity is so stupid as to make it an utter waste of my time and breath to even attempt to think down to their level.
Or so it seems to me. :-)
Ruin one life, you're a criminal. Ruin countless lives, you're either a hero or a government.
:sweatdrop People are stupid sometimes. My condolances, dude.