Drive-Through Mastectomy

[Maral]

This takes less than a minute of your time.

 

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 web site

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 it 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 only need to give your name,

email address, state, and zip code number.

 

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.

Edited March 27, 2008 by Maral

[Em]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention Maral jan.

[Eva]

What a concidence, I was thinking about this for couple of days..