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Before anything, I'd like to ask everyone to please click on the pretty pink button in the corner to help fund free mammograms for women who can not afford them. It doesn't cost anything, and I promise you won't have to give up your first born. I've also added one of these buttons to my sidebar and you'll be seeing them all over J'Land, and all over the internet.
You can click on as many buttons as you see. There is no limit to how many times you can click, or how many pretty pink buttons you can click on. The goal is to fund a total of 500 mammograms for needy women. It's pretty sad that so many women have to go without the checkups that they need simply because they can't afford it or don't know how to go about getting the very limited free services when they are available.
It's not just poor or homeless women. So many of us just don't have the means to seek the care that we need, even being employed. My sister-in-law died of ovarian cancer at the age of 38 even though she was a hard worker. Unfortunately, in this lovely country of ours, having a job and working hard doesn't mean you can afford the medical insurance. So many women don't have the couple hundred dollars that it costs to go and have an annual pap test or to pay for mammograms themselves.Hell, even having insurance - sometimes you can't afford the co-payment which is required! Oh but wait.... get yourself pregnant, and all of your expenses are covered for a couple of years and your babies expenses will be covered too when it's born and for years to come while he or she is still a minor! That's another thing that pisses the shit out of me, but that's an issue which isn't even worth getting into because it won't change anything. 
I want to thank everyone for your supportive comments about my lump, and for the advice. It means more to me than you can imagine. I spent my whole morning, and part of the afternoon crying because I was so touched by the lovely emails and cards that I received. Two very special ladies have touched my heart like no one else ever has, and I can't tell you how much you mean to me and how much I hope that we'll get together some day in the future. So many of you have been through this or know someone that has, and you've advised me not to worry about it yet until I know what the lump is, but that's easier said than done. I wish I could stop thinking about it. The problem is that I can't help but worry. I've been sick about it ever since I found the lump, not just because cancer runs in my family, but also because I do not have medical insurance. This is going to be a nightmare for me no matter what kind of lump it is. Paying for my mammo is not a problem, but I am in no condition to be able to pay for any kind of surgery. I hope and pray that this turns out to be nothing, and that it's not cancer because I don't know what I would do in that case. 
As an uninsured diabetic, I've had to go without my medications several times because I just could not afford to pay for them. I started working at the age of14, my husband has worked for the past 35 years, we pay a whole lot of money in taxes, yet I can't get medical insurance that we can afford. His company is based in NY, and we live in GA, that makes us out of network, which means it would cost us $1,600 a month for family coverage. Yup, sixteen hundred dollars a month! This is why I am so sick and tired of all of the illegal immigrants that come here and get everything they need in medical care, and the lazy ass women who have babies that they can't afford, while we taxpayers have to pay for it. Tell me there isn't something seriously wrong with this picture.
Huggies,
Mandy
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Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers!
Hugs ~Terri~ -
i owe $9900 for my stay in the hospital in June. I have Blue Cross Blue Shield....we have a $1000 deductible EACH for my family. Who the hell can afford to take care of theirselves in this life and this country? No one.
You are in my thoughts daily.....i pray you find out soon that it is nothing to be concerned about.
LOVE, lisa -
I'm thankful that we don't have the same medical scheme here in the UK. We pay tax ind insurance out of our wages and all healthcare is free... operations, consultations, mammograms,pap tests etc. We only have to pay around $11 for each prescription we have but I buy a pre-payment card for $160, that gets me all my meds for a year at no extra cost. I can't believe how high your insurance would be, that's scandalous. If you're diabetic you certainly need your drugs, I think it's outrageous to have to go without because you can't afford it, it shouldn't happen in a civilised country. I'm not surprised you're angry about people who are abusing the system. I really hope the lump is nothing to worry about, it's understandable that you'll worry tilll you find out for sure. Jeannette xx http://journals.aol.co.uk/jlo
corriere05/Welcometomytravels -
Mandy....I know its frustrating..I had to wait on a lump result too..most of the time its nothing to worry about..but I will keep you in prayer on this.....totally woman!.-Raven
10/11/06 1:25 AM
Tell you what, come and be an illegal immigrant over here, not only will you get free surgery, from what we read in the papers, they get given houses and sometimes even cars!! But you will probably need to develop a middle or eastern European accent.
I didn't realise that America treated it's people so badly, there must be a lot of people in your situation.
Linda x.
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