Thanks to All Who Donated to P3s Funds

[tcp]

HI guys, 

 

I wanted to say thanks to all of you who generousklly helped my partner and I get at least one of us to what's turning out to be a more important opportunity than we ewere originally led to believe. As some of you know, I work for a patient's rights organization called P3 Alliance (where you clicked on our link!) and I'm in charge of policy development and strategy. My disability has degenerated significantly this past year, so I'm down pretty much to my last campaign.

 

In any event, we have managed to get some meetings scheduled with our own Senator, Jim Lankford, and a few of his colleagues to talk about the effects of the VA Opioid Safety Initiative and changes that everyone wants made to that policy now that we know too many vets have died as a result of "cutting off the spigot" 6-7 years ago. I was almost one of them myself, and I lost literally everything to the opioid war--home, property, my cars, you name it. 

 

With the recent release of Netflix's "Painkiller" film, another movie relying on old and now discredited research more than 5 years old in their script, our allies decided that there needed to be more legislative action taken to protect our community from the inevitable public backlash that follows these types of movies (I estimate OUR movie will be made in about 3-4 years, when most of us are dead!). 

 

In any event, those of you who donated have made it possible for our voices to be heard at the federal level in a more efffective setting than a public hearing. On behalf of chronic pain patients, I can't thank you enough. After all, one of these days, God forbid, it may be you in our shoes, and you're going to hope then that we prevailed now. 

 

Thanks for the assistance, and thank you Matt for allowing Cip to do this and for me it's back to hoops. 

 

GO BIG RED!!!

 

tom

 

 

[cipsucks]

 

[cipsucks]

Random thoughts:  tcp is on a mission from God.  I'm proud of him. Everyone of us should be on that mission! Whatever God tells you to do, do it!  He still needs $300 to get him to D.C.  Come on progressives on this board, give till it hurts.  You won't.

[Bugeaters1]

16 hours ago, tcp said:

HI guys, 

 

I wanted to say thanks to all of you who generousklly helped my partner and I get at least one of us to what's turning out to be a more important opportunity than we ewere originally led to believe. As some of you know, I work for a patient's rights organization called P3 Alliance (where you clicked on our link!) and I'm in charge of policy development and strategy. My disability has degenerated significantly this past year, so I'm down pretty much to my last campaign.

 

In any event, we have managed to get some meetings scheduled with our own Senator, Jim Lankford, and a few of his colleagues to talk about the effects of the VA Opioid Safety Initiative and changes that everyone wants made to that policy now that we know too many vets have died as a result of "cutting off the spigot" 6-7 years ago. I was almost one of them myself, and I lost literally everything to the opioid war--home, property, my cars, you name it. 

 

With the recent release of Netflix's "Painkiller" film, another movie relying on old and now discredited research more than 5 years old in their script, our allies decided that there needed to be more legislative action taken to protect our community from the inevitable public backlash that follows these types of movies (I estimate OUR movie will be made in about 3-4 years, when most of us are dead!). 

 

In any event, those of you who donated have made it possible for our voices to be heard at the federal level in a more efffective setting than a public hearing. On behalf of chronic pain patients, I can't thank you enough. After all, one of these days, God forbid, it may be you in our shoes, and you're going to hope then that we prevailed now. 

 

Thanks for the assistance, and thank you Matt for allowing Cip to do this and for me it's back to hoops. 

 

GO BIG RED!!!

 

tom

 

 

NO, Thank you for your service to this once GREAT NATION!!!

[Norm Peterson]

On 8/18/2023 at 7:02 PM, tcp said:

HI guys, 

 

I wanted to say thanks to all of you who generousklly helped my partner and I get at least one of us to what's turning out to be a more important opportunity than we ewere originally led to believe. As some of you know, I work for a patient's rights organization called P3 Alliance (where you clicked on our link!) and I'm in charge of policy development and strategy. My disability has degenerated significantly this past year, so I'm down pretty much to my last campaign.

 

In any event, we have managed to get some meetings scheduled with our own Senator, Jim Lankford, and a few of his colleagues to talk about the effects of the VA Opioid Safety Initiative and changes that everyone wants made to that policy now that we know too many vets have died as a result of "cutting off the spigot" 6-7 years ago. I was almost one of them myself, and I lost literally everything to the opioid war--home, property, my cars, you name it. 

 

With the recent release of Netflix's "Painkiller" film, another movie relying on old and now discredited research more than 5 years old in their script, our allies decided that there needed to be more legislative action taken to protect our community from the inevitable public backlash that follows these types of movies (I estimate OUR movie will be made in about 3-4 years, when most of us are dead!). 

 

In any event, those of you who donated have made it possible for our voices to be heard at the federal level in a more efffective setting than a public hearing. On behalf of chronic pain patients, I can't thank you enough. After all, one of these days, God forbid, it may be you in our shoes, and you're going to hope then that we prevailed now. 

 

Thanks for the assistance, and thank you Matt for allowing Cip to do this and for me it's back to hoops. 

 

GO BIG RED!!!

 

tom

 

tcp,

 

Several years ago, you launched into me on here in a way that seemed to me to have been disproportionate and unwarranted. From what you've described above, though, you were almost certainly going through a very tough period in your life at the time. It seems highly likely you had no patience to spare. Of course, I couldn't have know that then. And you no doubt didn't know that, at that particular moment, I felt like I was getting attacked from multiple different directions nearly simultaneously. Death by a thousand cuts, as it were. So, I probably reacted differently to you than I otherwise might have.

 

When you lashed out at me, I probably internalized it too much. I reached out; you didn't reply. So, I put you on ignore for awhile. Maybe you knew that; maybe you didn't.

 

It just occurs to me, when we interact with people, not just on here but in life in general, we see the person we're interacting with in a snapshot at a moment in time. That's OUR perspective. However, from the vantage point of the person in the frame of that snapshot, that moment falls within a much larger context of things going on in their lives. Things we may have no idea are going on. They may be dealing with trials and tribulations far greater than we realize.

 

It's easy for us to judge. It's harder for us to understand. There are things that we don't know about the person we're indignantly launching at in the heat of the moment. And five, maybe six years later, we find out the things they were dealing with at the time we scrapped with them were much larger than we could have imagined.

 

In addition to learning about your story of perseverance in the face of hardship, I hope I also develop the virtues of patience and tolerance. I'm aware I'm not the most tolerant and patient person on this board. I'm aware I tend to not "suffer fools gladly." But my definition of "fools" probably casts a broader net than it should most of the time. My skin may occasionally be too thin. My tolerance level too low.

 

tcp, I regret seeing our difference more than our similarities over the last however many years. I sincerely wish you well. I hope you're around to see our first Husker NCAA tourney win. And, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry for what you're going through. May your burdens ease. May your days be filled with abundant joy in spite of the burdens you carry. May friendships sustain you. Be as well as your circumstances allow.

 

Norm

[tcp]

thanks norm. 

 

take care.