The problem is figuring out who to contact and how to contact them. The subset of patients we want to talk with are not on an email list we can buy from marketers. And I have no idea how to write the email to those people. In theory, the vampires could contact their own patients, but even if influence could help with that interaction, it would look very suspicious to have vampires contacting all their patients. Plus vampires are a pretty general cross-section of humanity, and many of them are actually pretty anti-social. Nothing about dialysis encourages social interaction, so a vampire has to personally drive this patient contact and 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 - 65 -
