From a nurse:

I'll never forget the look in my patient's 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 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 really quickly! 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 go to this website and vote on this issue and that you will recruit others to lend their support to this vital cause.

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 your 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 and zip code number.

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.

Thanks Freddie, just submitted my information.

I'm in, sent it to Louise at work.

Thank you Freddie. xx

I not only signed, I commented. This is something very close to my heart. My mom died of breast cancer, but she fought it for 29 years. Starting when I was 15, back in the dark ages, I nursed her thru chemo and radiation...and did it 4 times, (she had TWO mastectomies then it came back in the tissue under the breast, then in her lymph nodes, then in her bones), then had to tell her the 5th time, there was nothing that doctors could do, that she was going to die. (My aunts and uncles wanted me to be the one, as my mother trusted only me.) So very, very hard. And I stayed with her every night and Rhonda stayed with her during the days, when she was under hospice, until she died. And she called me the night before she died, as my aunt and uncles were there, and she wouldn't take her medicine because she was afraid if she went to sleep she would die. I told her to take it, and she never woke up. And I wasn't there, she spared me.

When I say I hate cancer, I MEAN I HATE it! Esp breast cancer, as it is soooo hard to beat.

OK, I'm done. Emotional subject for me, can ya tell?

Signed. I have donated hundreds to the Susan Kamen foundation.

If there is one thing in this world worth saving, it's boobs.

(just a little humor for a serious subject)

Thanks, Freddie

Done & I'll forward it on
I do believe cancer has touched us all at some time & we do need to act on this!

Thanks Freddie - added mine w/comment

My group had our Breast Cancer ribbon flip flops at the ready after our event on Sunday

12 women; fashion flops; and Sam Adams beer

Freddie, Thanks for posting, I just signed it too.

I have signed as well and yes, yes, yes, - it is SUCH a worthy cause. Of course that's why so many of us do things we wouldn't normally do to make a difference - to help find a cure.

Hey Boom - I have a pair of those too;-) And I am amassing quite a collection of pink ribbon wear too.

This weekend it's back at it - walk, walk, walk - train, train, train.

me toooooooo
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