Thursday, September 4, 2008

September is Chronic Pain Awareness Month! Take Power Over the Source of Your Chronic Pain.

With September here, summer is quickly waving us goodbye and autumn is shouting in HELLO! This is our month. It is Chronic Pain Awareness Month. September also includes National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week (Sept. 8th - 14, 2008)!

Chronic Pain Awareness Month helps to draw attention to; the importance of educating the general public of the growing number of people who suffer with chronic pain and its under treatment, to create an awareness of the opportunities and the beneficial programs that are presently available to us, spotlight the need for our congressional leaders to pass legislation to fund more research into ways to control or eliminate chronic pain and to give us an opportunity to work with grass root organizations within our communities in whatever capacity our illness allows.



LINKS THAT GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE BACK YOUR POWER



Chronic Pain Connection



The Arthritis Foundation



American Pain Foundation



Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc.



Dr. Geoff's MedBlog



Hopekeepers Magazine




Cancer Care On Line Support Group




Power Over Pain Action Network



8 comments:

Speedcat Hollydale said...

So glad to see you tonight! Thanks for stopping around at some of the Hollydale happenings.

Looks like some fine recources and links here. Fine work :-)

Take care, God bless!
Eric

Mckay K said...

Hi Eric, thanks for the visit. I thought it would be easier for me to research some of the sites than someone who is having a bad week or even month.

Your singing in the rain post is so cute. We really don't know who we are affecting do we?

Keep singing so we can too :)

Unknown said...

Hi McKay. hope all is well with you. good informative article with plenty of posts...lack of knowledge can no longer be an excuse for not getting involved.

Tikno said...

Dear McKay, today i spend my time to exploring your posts, from the first post (Trust Your Doctor? Take A Closer Look!). I really love of your sharing with others. Please accept my salute to you.

Sincerely,
love-ely

Anonymous said...

Amen for you sharing this. Your writings are so powerful. I sometimes have to read them a couple of times

Chronic Chick Talk

Mckay K said...

Blog Queen
You are so right. "Knowledge IS Power.

Thanks so much for your comment.

Tikno
There is no better compliment than for someone to spend their day reading your entire blog. No, Tikno, I SALUTE you!

Hi Chronic Chick
Your compliments help to make me a better writer.

Anonymous said...

Thanks to share with me such a nice posts and providing us such a useful information related to chronic pain. In your post, you also provide us various useful site links. Thanks once again and let we all celebrate this chronic pain awareness month and wish for them an early recovery who are suffering from the problem of chronic pain problem.

thanks
Christina Crease
onlinedepressionhelp@yahoo.com

Mckay K said...

Christina, thanks for mentioning the links to sites that are available to not only help inform us, but, also offer the opportunity for us to get involved.

Sometimes we want to get involved but don't have the time or energy to search the web looking for just the right organization. Hopefully, these links will help!

Thanks for your insightful comments. They are always welcome.