From: Bcc Rally
[mailto:bccrally@yahoo.com]
Subject: Be my Bra - bill is in the Senate now
Thanks
Suzie for sending this to my attention.
The
bill passed in the House of Representatives in September and is now
going on to the Senate. Please go to the website to learn more about
this topic.
This
actually happened to me ( surgery mid-day and at 9:00 a.m., next
morning, I had to leave the hospital) so my physician
contacted my insurance company to get special permission for me to stay
one more day. The drains stay in longer than two days but that
additional day gives you time to gain control of the pain and discomfort,
become aware of what is happening around you and mentailly
prepared for what you need to do for the recovery process.
I
personally think it should be 4 days minimum but 2 days is absolutely better
than a drive through experience.
Subject: Be my Bra.
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! 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
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