I Declare My Independence from Parkinson's. Will you?

When, in the course of human lives, it becomes necessary for PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON'S to dissolve the physical and mental bonds which have connected them with this treacherous disease, and to assume among the powers of well-being, a decent respect to the needs of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humankind are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable needs, that among these are healthy and stable bodies, freedom from mental impairments, and the pursuit of life with lower medical costs. That to secure these needs, support groups are instituted among the afflicted with PD, deriving their powers from the patients, families, and caregivers. That whenever any form of disease becomes destructive to these ends, it is the needs of the patients to alter or abolish it, and to institute better health, laying its foundation on accurate, thorough, and meaningful research in such form, as to the medical community shall seem most likely to effect their safety and well-being. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that the medical doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that patients of PD are more disposed to suffer, while bodies are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce or eradicate the patients under absolute terror, it is their needs, it is their duty to their families, to throw off such a disease and those that would take advantage of the disease,, and to provide new guards for their future well-being.

Such has been the patient, sufferance of those inflicted with PD; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of medicine and insurance. The history of the present medical environment is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute horror of these Parkinson's bodies, minds, and moneys. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Parkinson's disease has refused to assent to many therapy sessions, the most wholesome and necessary for the health of these bodies.

It has forbidden the researchers to find reasons for this disease of immediate and pressing importance, unless more people with the knowledge and skills and others with the moneys to invest in the most promising research are found that see the true needs of those inflicted.

It has refused to allow other laws for the accommodation of current, yet expensive treatments, unless the patient relinquish the need for other things such as food, a need inestimable to them and formidable to the insurance CEOs.

It has called together medical and insurance companies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and unforgiving from the depository of their medical needs, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with its measures.

It has dissolved caring actions repeatedly for opposing with uncaring firmness its invasions on the mind, bodies and pocketbooks of PD patients.

PD has refused, for a long time, after many years of taking L-dopa, of giving in to the medication, but, instead, has made the patient feel beaten down and defeated by giving the patient dyskinesia, dementia, or other such symptoms leaving the patient exposed to all the dangers of physical and monetary invasion from without and mental tricks within.

We, therefore, the patients of Parkinson's disease, appealing to the Supreme Physician of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do , in the name, and by the authority of that same Physician, solemnly publish and declare, that these bodies are, and of need ought to be free and independent of the disease; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the disease, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as these bodies are free and independent from PD, they have full power to work, play, establish meaningful relationships, and do all other acts and things which healthy bodies may of need do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our love, our respect, and our sacred honor.

Happy Independence Day, All!

Happy Independence Day!