GraceAbounds
Well-Known Member
Lifetimetv.com: Breast Cancer Awareness - Petition
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 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 quick! 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
>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.
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 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 quick! 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
>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.
