This is not an email joke. This is actually a petition and is done through
lifetimeTV.com. The web link is below. You use the link to send a message to
our legislatures.

This petition is very important.

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, 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 p rocedu re. Le t's give women the
chance to recover properly in th e 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 for
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,
against 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 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,

THANKS