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July 2007 
!muy importante!
Posted on Jul 19th, 2007
by 
jessica
jessica
I just got this in my email and I wanted to pass it on! Please take a moment to vote on this very important issue...it could help so many women!
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 t h e 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.
>
>
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.
>
>
>
> Mary A.C. Schweitzer, Paralegal
>
> Law Offices of David C. Balmer
>
> 3611 Kutztown Road
>
> Reading, PA 19605-1841
>
> 610-929-4020
>
> Fax: 610-929-4276
>
> Email: maryschweitzer@verizon.net
>
>
>
> "Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs
> of the heart."
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 t h e 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.
>
>
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.
>
>
>
> Mary A.C. Schweitzer, Paralegal
>
> Law Offices of David C. Balmer
>
> 3611 Kutztown Road
>
> Reading, PA 19605-1841
>
> 610-929-4020
>
> Fax: 610-929-4276
>
> Email: maryschweitzer@verizon.net
>
>
>
> "Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs
> of the heart."
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