Please take one minute...

This was sent to me via e-mail. I don't usually put things like this on my blog, but this is very worthy. Although breast cancer hasn't claimed anyone in my immediate family, I'm lucky to only have friends who have survived while others aren't as lucky, thier friends passed away. Breast cancer has always taunted me sort of. In my book , Janine's Hope, Janine dies of breast cancer, and we get to see the effects (thorugh the lives of people she touched) of a woman who didn't give up . Who lived and loved and gave life her all. Even though she's a fictional character, I have over the years grown to love her, and believe, all those who suffer from cancer, should be able to do so with honor and dignity, and with love and respect. Thank you for taking just a minute...

Greetings: I've never sent you anything like this before, so please believe that I think this is important. The link takes you right to the voting page and it really takes 30 secondes. Please vote. (OK'd by snopes.com - not a hoax) It's back again. (written by a surgeon) ...

I'll never forget the look in my patients' eye 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 patient 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.


Mastectomy Bill in Congress
It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important .. please take the time and do it really quick!
Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for all women.

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 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 requires 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/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html

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

Thank you.