500 signatures reached
To: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Awaken And Enlighten, Government, Legislators, And Media, To Chronic Pain Reality!
It is imperative that we get the correct information in front of legislators! The narrative that is played out in the media and government pertaining to chronic pain patients and opioids is inaccurate, false and needs to be changed!
I am requesting that it be mandatory prior to any reduction, and or removal of medications/opioids that education pertaining to and about pain, illnesses, human life and chronic pain sufferers and suffering in conjunction with pain management specialists and specialists in a variety of medical fields to address illnesses medically.
To get well-rounded, correct, accurate information in order to make decisions pertaining to human life and suffering!
I am requesting that it be mandatory prior to any reduction, and or removal of medications/opioids that education pertaining to and about pain, illnesses, human life and chronic pain sufferers and suffering in conjunction with pain management specialists and specialists in a variety of medical fields to address illnesses medically.
To get well-rounded, correct, accurate information in order to make decisions pertaining to human life and suffering!
Why is this important?
I have been a chronic pain sufferer for over 13 plus years! 13+ years struggling to be understood and acknowledged! We chronic pain sufferers a vast majority of us have to on a daily basis face judgments, comments reflective of who they, family, friends, society, and government think we are!
Not reflective of who we really are! Awareness, of what we face/challenges, in addition, to our oh so painful debilitating illness!
We get barraged with negative labels such as a drug seeker, attention seeker, exaggerating our pain...
I'd like to introduce this petition to educate and enlighten, bringing attention to chronic pain and the debilitating, heartbreaking, road of judgments and inaccurate bias judgmental statements that we endure by not only our family members, friends, the medical community, but society as a whole!
It is next to impossible to be able to articulate with any kind of Justice how living day in and day out, 24/7, 365 days a year with torturous never-ending chronic pain is; the intensity and toll it takes on your body, your mind, your spirit, your psyche, and self-esteem! I would like to introduce the ability to educate and inform media, legislators, family members, society as a whole to the correct terminology and challenges we face!
Start opening and changing the narrative, educating and enlightening those who do not know the gravity, impact, and seriousness of this issue! Many are dying due to suicide because the essential tools, the only thing that gave them any sense of relief, functionality and or quality of life is being or has been taken from them( their medications opioids)! The collateral damage that plays out in their lives and all those that surround them! And the ultimate toll and damage this action of tapering and or removal of opioids will do to the family unit, social dynamics that will become explosive & reputably damaged that could potentially be irreversible!
Thank you so much Cathy Kean XOXO
Not reflective of who we really are! Awareness, of what we face/challenges, in addition, to our oh so painful debilitating illness!
We get barraged with negative labels such as a drug seeker, attention seeker, exaggerating our pain...
I'd like to introduce this petition to educate and enlighten, bringing attention to chronic pain and the debilitating, heartbreaking, road of judgments and inaccurate bias judgmental statements that we endure by not only our family members, friends, the medical community, but society as a whole!
It is next to impossible to be able to articulate with any kind of Justice how living day in and day out, 24/7, 365 days a year with torturous never-ending chronic pain is; the intensity and toll it takes on your body, your mind, your spirit, your psyche, and self-esteem! I would like to introduce the ability to educate and inform media, legislators, family members, society as a whole to the correct terminology and challenges we face!
Start opening and changing the narrative, educating and enlightening those who do not know the gravity, impact, and seriousness of this issue! Many are dying due to suicide because the essential tools, the only thing that gave them any sense of relief, functionality and or quality of life is being or has been taken from them( their medications opioids)! The collateral damage that plays out in their lives and all those that surround them! And the ultimate toll and damage this action of tapering and or removal of opioids will do to the family unit, social dynamics that will become explosive & reputably damaged that could potentially be irreversible!
Thank you so much Cathy Kean XOXO