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FW: Be my bra......URGENTLY NEEDED SUPPORT for BREAST CANCER PATIENT   Message List  
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From a nurse:



I'll never forget the look in my patients' eyes when I had to tell them

they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I
remember begging the Doctors to keep these women in the hospital
longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the
insurance companies. So there I sat with my patients, giving them the
instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well
they didn't grasp half of what I was saying, because the glazed,20
hopeless, frightened look spoke louder than the quiet 'Thank You' they
muttered. A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to
remove cancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had a
Mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain
afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an
outpatient procedure. Let's give women the chance to recover properly
in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.
It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important. Please take the
time and do it! Please send this to everyone in your address book. If
there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this
is one of those times.

If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the 30
seconds to vote on this issue and send it on to others you know who
will do the same. There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient
Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a
minimum 48-hour hospital stay f or patients undergoing a mastectomy.
It's about eliminating the 'drive-through' Mastectomy where women
are
forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, agai nst the wishes
of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with
drainage tubes still attached.

Lifetime Television has put this bill on their Web page with a petition
drive to show support. Last year=20 over half the House signed on.
PLEASE!
! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You need
not give more than your name, state, and zip code.

( http://WWW.lifetimetv.Com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php )

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and
Family, and on behalf of all women, THAN KS.



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Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:30 am

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