Support Aaron's Journey to Wellness

Jennifer Leonhardt is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Aaron Gilmartin.

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Dear friends and supporters,

I am reaching out to you this month to ask for your support during a time of need.

I am working with some new therapies in regards to an atypical Parkinson's diagnosis that I received just around the beginning of the pandemic. I am about four or so years into my healing journey and have made encouraging progress but also been delayed by a lack of financial ability, from loss of working hours, inflated prices for everything, but especially by not having access to the medicines, supplements, and therapies that I would like to, in order to make better, faster progress.

I had a significant temporary setback this spring after an unexpected exposure to extreme toxins, which seemed to create a worsening of symptoms and landed me in intensive rehabilitation, from which I am still coming back. I would like to find a way to cover transportation to treatment, monthly supplements, weekly PT, and more.

According to the American Parkinson's Disease Association, "A proper exercise program can include cardio-respiratory exercise (fitness training), resistance exercises (strength training), flexibility exercises (stretching), and gait and balance training. Physical, occupational and speech therapists can be important partners in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. It is never too early to consult PT, OT, and speech experts and can be beneficial to have a baseline evaluation to set you up for success from the start. A healthy diet can increase energy, maximize the potential of medications, and promote overall well-being. Complementary medicine encompasses an array of treatment modalities, like yoga, acupuncture & massage, and meditation, and are performed in addition to standard treatments with the goal of improving quality of life." All of which I have been doing and new modalities that I will now, with your help, begin.

A simple breakdown of costs over the next six months looks like this: I would spend approximately $3k on advanced PT, $3k on advanced bodywork modalities, $2k on fitness, strength and flexibility training, $5k for enhanced neurological protocols for treatment using meditation and other experimental therapies, $3k for targeted supplement program, $3k on advanced nutritional program, and $1k on transportation needs.

I am making some pretty extraordinary strides and would love to share with any of you any of the details of that journey. Feel free to reach out if you are able to and interested. I am @aaronsings on Instagram and @AaronGilmartin on FB, btw (more online links below). I am mainly focused at this time on moving forward with more experimental and advanced protocols, and vitamin, nutritional and physical therapies, which have me moving forward most quickly.

For now, I am reaching out to a small number of people who have been following my career in music for a while, and I am particularly requesting that any of you who feel moved to or are able to contribute $20 or $200 or whatever is possible towards the cost of these therapies, to offset the expense so I can continue and/or immediately begin them.

Thank you for listening here and considering—I know that these are still unusual times for most of us since Covid. I am deeply grateful for your support all these years, and I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Love,

Aaron Gilmartin