Okay, so I've been on medical leave for three months, and my short term disability is not really cutting it when it comes to paying my bills. So I decided to try and start donating plasma.

I've been rejected in the past (about 6 years ago) several times because my heart rate was always too high. Even when I was younger, and very fit because I was a runner, I experienced a high heart rate. My doctor attributed it to medications. Now, I'm overweight and not fit at all so that's probably it. When I tried six years ago, I kept going back, and by the third time getting rejected, I just gave up.

Well, anyway, I went this time super hopeful and passed the physical. The nurse said I should fly through and be good to go...and then she looked at the interview I filled out. She said that unfortunately, because I answered "yes" to having bipolar disorder, they had to have a note from my doctor stating I am stable enough to give plasma.



Um, wat?

Have any of you experienced this? I honestly don't get it. Like, what do they expect me to do, freak out in the chair? Start running around the room? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

They faxed a form to my pdocs office, but they are so disorganized that I know the form will never get filled out. I cried on the way home (OMG, I'm unstable!!) because I was counting on going twice a week, and having this money to start paying down some medical bills.

I knew in my gut as soon as I saw that question I should have lied and said no. But I guess I have too much integrity.