Plasma day went well for Tom. $75 for 2 hours of work is a sweet deal. He spent an hour of it filling out paperwork since he’s just starting with these people.

I really want to do it too but they’re very strict about schedules or else you lose the incentives and bonuses they give you for being consistent. In other words, if there is a God up there, this is another opportunity I can thank him for costing me by throwing this sleep disorder on me. I may at least be able to give blood and platelets if I qualify and they don’t have a strict schedule. We’ll have to look into it. It’s just frustrating though because between the sleep disorder and the fatigue, so many doors to so many different opportunities are forever closed to me.

I didn’t sleep long enough and woke up a lot so I’m pretty tired today. Couldn’t even make it to Bicycle Bingo. Again, thanks, God, if you exist. Thanks a real lot. Nice to know you think I’m such a horrible person that I deserve this and to be cooped up at home when I could be out there taking walks regularly and being more active in general. I’m no social butterfly and I never will be but I might be a little more sociable if I was at least able to attend clubhouse activities every now and then. But no, instead I have to be too tired or sleeping. I didn’t even have the energy to go to Walgreens with him to pick up my blood pressure meds.

What else can I rant about now that I’m on a roll? Oh yeah, how about the fact that I’ve had more burning and itching today than yesterday? In fact, I don’t think I’ve had this much itching in a while. I’m hoping it means it’s healing but I don’t even know if I’m getting the treatment to where it needs to be. No trouble with my finger but I’m still having problems inserting applicators. I don’t even know for sure what my problem is or if I have multiple problems going on.

Anyway, Tom doesn’t think I would want to give plasma no matter what or that I would qualify because there were a lot of questions he answered "no" to that I would answer "yes" to. Yes, I have had my gallbladder removed, for example.

Also, there’s no way he can play on his phone while he’s doing it because you have to wear those horribly tight electronic blood pressure cuffs that tighten every few minutes and pump your fist regularly.

He said there were tons of donators and that the woman he dealt with noticed his tremors and asked him about it but as he showed her, his arm was steady and it was just his hands and fingers that shook but he was still able to make a fist.

They said that he could come back in a couple of days and do this regularly as long as he doesn’t bruise. They also said that if both arms bruise, after alternating between the two, don’t even think of coming in. He doesn’t have to go in at a set time but on a set day. So now we just have to hope that he doesn’t have any side effects like bruising, red urine, or too much dizziness. They told him what to eat and drink and what not to. This first time around they’re not going to use his plasma for anything but are going to run it through some tests.

Even if I only got a $25 gift card I wouldn’t mind donating blood and platelets. Why not help save lives? One of the questions they asked me before surgery was whether or not I would accept blood from the blood bank in the event of an emergency and of course I would have.