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Level of Review:
Husband does this - calls it his "blood
money".
Overview:
Get paid to donate plasma.
Product:
Human bioproducts, in this case,
plasma.
Costs:
Nothing but time.
Compensation:
Not sure about other companies, but BioLife pays
$20 per visit. They add $10 if you do it twice in
one week.
Conclusion:
My husband goes in twice a week to donate
plasma. He works nights, four nights a week, so he
schedules one appointment Monday afternoon (before
his workweek starts), and one appointment Friday
morning after his last day of work. He gets $50 a
week "mad money" when he can stay on
schedule.
Getting started was
a challenge. They want a lot of information,
including proof of your physical address, which
they require in the form of something which has
been mailed to you. Only we live in an area with no
street delivery, so that was a hurdle we had to
overcome. They also do a full medical history on
you, and blood tests. All of this is time
consuming, and very invasive.
Each time you
donate, they do a number of physical checks before
you donate - weight, blood, etc. Then they run you
through a standard questionaire. You are then taken
back to donate if no anomalies show up in the
screening. You are screened every time you donate.
They also run tests
on your blood every time. If something shows up,
you will be informed, and possibly suspended until
they can verify that the problem has resolved.
Kevin had low protein once (plasma is made up
mostly of protein, so low blood protein is a red
flag), and they suspended him until a new blood
test showed higher protein levels. It takes 10 days
to get the results, so he lost 2 weeks through it
all.
He has lost days
because of scheduling conflicts or holidays also.
Scheduling rules are very strict, and they will not
let you donate more than twice within any given
seven day period. So sometimes you'll miss a day,
make it up a day later, then be denied at your
regular time the next week because it has not been
seven days - they don't tell you this when you schedule either,
they only tell you when you get there for the
appointment.
Kevin has also been
denied due to bruising at the draw site. He has hard
veins to hit sometimes, and if there is bruising on
the inside of the elbows they will turn you
down. If you have an obvious injury, or even a stressed joint,
or other unusual appearance, they will not let
you donate either, stating that if your body
is healing from anything, you should not donate.
They have a
referral program, and will pay $10 on the
second time your referral donates.
It does take time.
An average of 1 1/2 hours each time, sometimes two
hours if he schedules during a busy
time.
This has been a
good way for Kevin to make a little extra to pay
for reloading supplies or other personal items when
money was tight. Since it did not affect the family
budget, he did not need to feel guilty about
spending it however he chose. He has had to learn to enjoy
it when it is there though, and to not depend
on it too much.
It is not a second
job by any means. But if you, like my daughter,
just need a little more to make it, or feel that
this is something you can qualify to do and would
like the money, then it can be a nice way to pocket
some extra cash fairly quickly, in a totally
honorable way.
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