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LittleC
LittleC Member Posts: 151
edited June 2014 in Advocacy

I'm contacting ALL of my representative, and I'm starting here with this list.....  CONGRESS/House:  http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml

This is the e-mail I've started sending....   feel free to copy it if you want to.  Short and to the point.  I've refrained from sending the smiley giving the finger, though I'd like to line the e-mail with it....

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Dear Representative,
I have a name. I have a face. I will not shut up and die nor allow my daughter to shut up and die. How DARE you tell us to not even self exam? MANY of us found our cancers that way and when ignored by the doctors, the Mamo's picked it up!! How dare you gear up to start FURTHER lining your pockets and the pockets of insurance companies! The age for suggested mammogram's should be 30 NOT 50 !!!! I'd be dead now. What about our children?

I HAVE A NAME - I HAVE A FACE - I HAVE CANCER
~carol husak~
Fox Lake, ILLINOIS
age 37 found lump w/self exam, doc ignored - 2 weeks after 40th birthday mamo found
dx Stage IIIC (possible 4 - nodules on lungs & thyroid) aggressive/advanced/metastatic comedo carcinoma - 27/30 lymh node positive.
http://littlec123.blogspot.com/

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Added by sheila / lvtwoqlt: SENATORS:

Here is the list of senators http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

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  • LittleC
    LittleC Member Posts: 151
    edited November 2009

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited November 2009

    Here is the list of senators http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

    and I am sending emails to both my senators and congressman.

    Sheila

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  • LittleC
    LittleC Member Posts: 151
    edited November 2009

    yes!  GOOD!  Thank you Ivtwoqlt !!!

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited November 2009

    Here is what I wrote to my congressman and senators

    I have a name - I have a face - I have cancer. I don't want to be one of the statistics of a woman who died because of the new guidelines.

    I do not agree with the new guidelines that were put out yesterday regarding starting mammograms at the age of 50 instead of 40. I am one who mammograms before the age of 50 saved my life. I started having mammograms at 40. At age 44, with no physical lumps, my mammo showed calcifications, the biopsy revealed pre-cancer. Just before my 46th birthday again my mammo revealed calcifications in the opposite breast, and again it was pre-cancer. Then 6 months later, my mammo again showed calcifications in the right breast for the 2nd time. This time the biopsy revealed early stage breast cancer. Because the cancer was found in the pre-invasive stage, I was able to avoid chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Please don't take this needed screening tool away from women like myself, who don't feel lumps but the mammogram shows that there is a problem.

    Thank you so much for listing to my concerns.

    Sheila

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  • 3katz
    3katz Member Posts: 1,264
    edited November 2009

    Carol & Sheila - thanks so much for the links. I'm already halfway through the list for Wisconsin with my letter.

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  • LittleC
    LittleC Member Posts: 151
    edited November 2009

    nice 3katz   we truly have to keep let big brother we are not happy and we ARE paying attention to them!

     lvtwoqlt  your letter is better then mine.  I was so blinded by rage, I couldn't think straight.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2009

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  • Sachi
    Sachi Member Posts: 351
    edited November 2009

    Thank you. I got th eaddresses for our senators from your list. I will write and get all my friends to write.

    barb

     dxd at age 43 by mammo. no risk factors.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2009

    The government REALLY needs to stay OUT OF OUR HEALTH ISSUES! They can't even manage Medicare and Medicaid - and now they want to manage every citizen's health issues! They are out of control and they need to back off! Damn...I am so angry about this! As if we don't have ENOUGH to worry about!  

    AND... the government run "board" should visit the website titled:

    Young Survivor Coalition - especially the forum titled "REMEMBRANCE"

    http://www.youngsurvival.org/bulletin-board/

    Maybe...just maybe...they would have a change of heart!

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  • Odalys
    Odalys Member Posts: 2,103
    edited November 2009

    Thank you Catol and Sheila.  I am going to start my letter now and will also forward this link to my bc sisters.  We need to unite and tell this bunch of bureaucrats to back away.  We need to make a lot of noise.  These new guidelines need to be trashed, they are unacceptable!!!! 

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  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 6,416
    edited November 2009

    No doubt Laura... if this is a taste... I am so scared...

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  • LittleC
    LittleC Member Posts: 151
    edited November 2009
    Sherri G - NICE! Strong office there!

    Sachi - you go girl! (I emailed everyone I could to get them to help)

    ijh58 - Nice list THANKS!

    LAURA - AMEN and RIGHT ON SISTER!!!! Our overall health care system is at stake and it's starting here!

    I can't imagine what made them think messing with a bunch of STRONG, MENOPAUSAL woman was a good idea?!?!?

    This morning the news reported "...but this is just a "suggestion", Insurance still has to pay for mamos at 35 and thereafter...." Yeah, for HOW long will that last? How long before this stupid group starts just making shit up out of their asses (to syphin more money) and slipping things into bills and changing it all for the worse? Deep down, we all know this is what will happen. This is merely the prelude to the kiss of death.   They picked their first fight with the WRONG group of people.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2009

    "I can't imagine what made them think messing with a bunch of STRONG, MENOPAUSAL woman was a good idea?!?!?"

    LittleC - YOU ARE TOO FUNNY AND TRULY ONE TOUGH ILLINOIS GIRL! Glad to know you, girl! lol

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited November 2009

    I can't imagine what made them think messing with a bunch of STRONG, MENOPAUSAL woman was a good idea?!?!?

    Oh, I just love that!  Well said.

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