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"Drive-Through" Mastectomies petition
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"Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross joined Lifetime, Senator Landrieu (D-LA) and Representatives DeLauro (D-CT) and Moran (R-KS), at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday, January 23, to give voice to the 20 million signatures collected on myLifetime.com urging Congress to end the practice of “drive-through” mastectomies, when women are forced to leave the hospital following their physically and emotionally difficult breast cancer surgeries before they and their doctors may feel they are ready to go home. Senator Landrieu and Representatives DeLauro and Moran are championing the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 (S.459/H.R 758), which includes no mandates but allows a woman and her doctor to decide if she is best off going home or staying in the hospital for at least 48 hours after having a mastectomy.

to sign the petition go to:
http://www.mylifetime.com/...east-cancer-petition

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Re: "Drive-Through" Mastectomies petition [southerngal] [ In reply to ]
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My mother has had two mastectomies, five years apart. The first one, approximately 7 years ago, her insurance carrier wanted her to go home 6 hours following surgery. We finally worked it out so she could stay at least one night. I stayed with her. She was not on any type of watch from the nurses station, but around 9pm that night, she lost consciousness. I ran to the nurses station for help. Her blood pressure was 27/12. During surgery the doctor had nicked a vein and she was bleeding out. She had to have an emergency transfusion and would certainly have died had I not been there or had she been sent home.
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