Voyager » Jo-Anne

have the personality or influence to succeed at that. We want this to be as simple and successful as possible.

To lead to this success, I need a targeted contact list of patient and their non-dialysis addresses. Phones are unfortunately useless for most vampires, and patients are unlikely to have an easy way to video chat… some won't even have email addresses. So an old fashioned door-todoor salesman marketing list is the way to go. With the list being filtered by current dialysis patients, and possibly organized by income level.

I hope Jo-Anne, my dialysis social worker, can help.

VOYAGER » JO-ANNE

Mark is a very unusual dialysis patient Most patients get pretty depleted from dialysis, but Mark rarely even naps and seems more energetic after the session than before it. Except for favoring his left arm from the needles. Susan was kind of like that too, but she seemed somewhat depressed. I think she moved up to Redding. I hope she likes it up there: I hear the redwood trees are magnificent.

Mark also asks _a lot_ of questions. Not questions about his treatment, which is pretty normal although lots of patients just trust their doctors are doing the right thing. Social questions like “How are you doing?”, “How is your husband handling chemo?”, and the like. It is bizarre that he remembers that my husband is in chemo treatment, let alone that is how he starts a conversation with me. In spite of having a machine pulling blood out of him while we talk, he is worried that I might be having a rough week. He is engaging like a salesman, except he isn’t selling anything. Asking a lot of questions though.

Today he asked how people pay for dialysis, and whether some people stop coming because they can’t pay. In general dialysis is paid for by medical plans or Medicare. It costs most insurers about five