I have no idea why I didn't start this with this title, but now it feels like you know of what you'll be reading. I know, and apologize that the petition is long, and could be significantly longer. We already still have every promotion active! I don't care how long this takes to happen, but it WILL happen. 

Moving forward please reference with this title as this is what is said at the end of each paragraph, also with good reason. Thank you to all that have already signed and shared and interacted and all of the things. Could I please ask that you screenshot the QR code? That way, you are able to just have people passing by, just stop by and scan it to read it as well. My son had me print it on a printer label with adhesive backing to put on the back of his phone. He can just say "hey can you check out my mom's petition?", and have them scan it. Then, explain to them to just, at least, scan it, open it and leave it as an active tab on their phone until they have the time to sit down and read it. I have even contemplated having a hoodie and t-shirts made with the QR code put on the fronts and backs of all of them. Maybe, even on each sleeve shoulder. I am trying to think of anything I can to be able to get as many of the population to see it. 

If you're not aware,15%, at minimum, of our population is in ACKNOWLEDGED to be in chronic pain. Comparatively, the African American population percentage of the US is 13%. That is only what is acknowledged! Standing back and looking at it, it's closer to 45%-55% of the population of the United States that is in moderate to severe under/un-treated pain due to propaganda created from a street drug problem that is labeled as opioid, ONLY because of the nature of it. However, HUGE MISTAKE!!! It is NOT patients that are "overdosing". and these people aren't simply overdosing; they are being poisoned by ILLICITLY MANUFACTURED FENTANYL. This goes back significantly to 2016, when the CDC put out  guidelines that were generally based and the effect was MILLIONS OF PATIENTS WERE FORCED OFF THE MEDICATIONS KEEPING THEM GOING, successfully, without any abuse over the longevity of their treatment. I was one of those people that was given 26 pills, and told to figure out how to taper it myself, by a pain management doctor! The successor of that pain management doctor, that took over for him, was even worse!! I wanted to get OFF of a medication that was causing, what could be fatal symptoms/side-effects! I was told to get a lawyer if i wanted to get off the medication!!

The bureaucracy that the medical industry turned into is killing it off. When it became about the all mighty dollar, is when healthcare was no longer healthcare. It was experiment with these new medications that just cause more side effects that require more medications to manage!! Anyone that is a pain patient or knows a pain patient well, knows that this is the exact course they take.  Then, when they have ruined you to where you cannot be cured, they tell you to find your own ways to help yourself; whatever that may have to be. When will this be deemed as patient abandonment and medical malpractice??  The doctors that did this willingly, are the ones that are being targeted by this. Those that did it because the government agencies are breathing down their necks, that is a different story. It should never have to do with money, and there should never be incentives to promote a medication no matter what the patient's history is. What many have forgotten, due to big pharma, you shouldn't try a new drug if you haven't tried, the tested, and true drugs first. Not only that, but the biggest of all is DO NO HARM! Where did that go? Along with ignoring side-effects / adverse effects being reported, where did that come from? 

My point in all of this is that when a patient is in enough pain that they go to the doctor for it, they should be believed and treated in accordance of their own history, alone. The judgement has to STOP! Compassion needs to be brought back to healthcare. Doctors need to see themselves as the patient, and to listen to what it is taking away from them. Doctors need to document the pain scale number we give with a description as to what it is. So there is some level of tracking severity of chronicity, at minimum. Not only that, but it will also show to any doctors moving forward the actual track of your health. Not an ill-perceived opinion due to the ignoring of zebra hoof beats. 

Please keep spreading the word in all of the ways you are able. There are millions that don't have a voice and we need to be it for them! It is time for pain patients to be heard and treated correctly, instead of being made feel like a criminal because we need a medication!! 

Thank you all for your efforts thus, far! This is just the beginning!! AND all of you are a part of this!!! By signing your voice is being heard, and MATTERS so much!! Please keep up the great work. Please don't forget to share continually! We have got to get this into as many change-makers' hands as we can! I love you all!!

Sincerely, 

Kim (galaxy_kim)