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I got the email below from a friend at ACS and wanted to share it with you all.
This is important.

If you’ve ever known anyone whose had a mastectomy then you will understand what this means. A mastectomy is not an out patient procedure and we need to fight to make sure that it never will have to be.

Now, this email suggested that we sign the on-line petition, which you can do if you want. I personally don’t believe in on-line petitions so I did even better, I called my congressman. I suggest you do the same… the more phone calls our representatives get the better.

If you live in Delaware, Mike Castle’s Georgetown office # is 302-856-3334, Wilmington office is 302-428-1902, Dover office is 302-736-1666 and in Washington DC 202-225-4165

Need to know how to reach your representative,
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
Click on your state and then your representative’s name.
Or call them all, after all they are working for you!

Here’s the email….
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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