Hemodiealysis

HEMODIEALYSIS

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The episode with Nancy marks the end of several things —

Not of using my abilities, but of some wavering I have around them and my relationship with Amasa. Nancy was a nice person, and just doing her job (representing her constituents) as best as she could. Amasa wanting me to change her mind with a particularly talent of mine did not sit well for me. Yes, she did what Amasa wanted after ‘my influence ’, but all I did was give her an open ear to talk into. I may not even have done that. Maybe, I just picked a bunch of good restaurants to eat at and convinced her they would be better than eating Foodbox every night.

Amasa clearly had its own motives separate from both Nancy’ s and mine. They wanted to limit their immediate (and even longterm) dependence on vampires like me, because we were already at a premium. Bill ‘2022-114’ would also have caused a lot of questions about why access to dialysis and pricing did not change. Amasa did not want those kinds of questions circulating around.

I decided having Amasa know what I could do (more than they knew already) or what I wanted was unwise. The next time, they might ask me to do something that the universe won ’t give me for free. My relationship with Dr. A. would have to change and be more distant. I liked her, but while she worked for Amasa, I couldn’t trust her. Maybe I should make a company where she can work for me?

Regarding my abilities, I decided I should try to convince people without actually brain-washing them. If I couldn’t do that, I should accept being in the wrong… at least as far as they are concerned. All I really need is access, which I feel is a fair use of my influence capabilities. I am not sure I will live up to this honor code, but I will try.

I also decided I needed to get to know more vampires.

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As Dr. A and I discussed, — there are tens of thousands of vampires / slaves. But I know less than a dozen. How is that possible? My guess is that the hospitals and clinics do not want us to know each other. It could be we are too valuable and they don’t want us negotiating a better contract or getting poached. As it is now, I make Amasa happy or I don’t exist. I have no idea how to contact someone at the Mayo Clinic or Cedar Sinai to get into their ‘V5’ equivalent program. The hospitals may even have formal relationships barring poaching. Google, Apple, and others conspired with each other to prevent competitive wages… until they were caught and paid several hundred million to avoid going to trial.

We vampires are like employees who have life-long non-compete clauses. Or possibly more descriptively, well-treated slaves.

The V-Wan project — started as a virtual meetup: just a Meetup listing containing Zoom-based get togethers. The meetup was titled Hemodiealysis, where the misspelling was intentional. But otherwise, the details sounded normal. It was for patients in hemodialysis to discuss their physical and emotional problems and needs. [[todo]]

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