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I think we need a bracelet for chronic pain much like the pink "breast cancer" ones. It would have to show the pain ~red, the depression ~black and the hope that trancends all ~ a green stripe. I have thought we need to stage a "die in" to get real recognition and compassionate treatment. Imagine if each person who suffers from pain went into their doc, clinic or hospital and demanded their right to die. Because that is the "choice" we are given -- suffer or die. If we stated emphatically that we really want correct treatment and an end to the war on pain sufferers (and the docs that treat us) it would get some real attention, huh?


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The war drums thrum and throb
Hands over hearts, do you feel it?
The war banners snap in the breeze
Like a shot ringing out, it penetrates!
The colors, two fat vertical stripes
Red and black, suffer or die
A narrow green band horizontally
The hope of life that transcends suffering
We are marching broken, wounded
The battle behind, before, around and in
The enemy invisible, inside us
Like some twisted Trojan horse
Who is our ally? To whom will we cling?
Ready to live, willing to die
Our faces painted, red, black and green

I'm in for the die-in Pariah. I never thought of it this way. Honestly we should all think about doing this when we see our PM docs

I'm in! If we could all WALK; we could walk on Washington and make some kind of statement of awareness, but alas, that to has been taken from us. What is left to a group of folks that hurt to bad to make a statement other that death