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    Quote Originally Posted by Twenty-Sixteen View Post
    Rose, So sad to hear this. Forgive me but didn't Obama promise that with Obamacare there would be no policy limits?

    I thought so, but who really knows what's in that mess.

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    [QUOTE=Common Sense;1300690]Early screening saved the lives of two people I know.[/QUOTE]

    Half an hour later, in an elementary school parking lot, I learned the scans revealed stage four breast cancer in my bones, liver, lungs and brain: a death sentence with an average life expectancy of three years.I demanded the truth, always, from my doctors. I was a reporter who needed facts to plan whatever life I had left. I would not live in denial. But I was too scared, too private to tell anyone except my husband, my daughter and three friends. My very cells suddenly became my most intimate secrets.
    Who would ever sign another book contract with a dying woman? Or remember Laurie Becklund, valedictorian, Fulbright scholar, former Times staff writer who exposed the Salvadoran death squads and helped The Times win a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots? More important, and more honest, who would ever again look at me just as Laurie?
    She had a lot of early screenings.

    She also rips the Susan Komen fund.


    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...222-story.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twenty-Sixteen View Post
    Rose, So sad to hear this. Forgive me but didn't Obama promise that with Obamacare there would be no policy limits?

    Ooops that goes with the same lie you can keep your doctor and your own insurance policy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Early screening saved the lives of two people I know.
    So far is what you mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    As I lay dying

    I am dying, literally, at my home in Hollywood, of metastatic breast cancer, the only kind of breast cancer that kills. For six years I've known I was going to die. I just didn't know when.

    Then, a couple of weeks before Christmas, a new, deadly diagnosis gave me a deadline. No doctor would promise me I'd make it to 2015.

    Promise me, I told my friends and family, that you'll never say that I died after “fighting a courageous battle with breast cancer.” This tired, trite line dishonors the dead and the dying by suggesting that we, the victims, are responsible for our deaths or that the fight we were in was ever fair.

    .....


    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...222-story.html
    Our next door neighbor with stage 4 breast cancer lasted two years longer than her doctors gave her. She thought that it might be due to the Rick Simpson Oil.
    Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.

    When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.

    Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.

    ............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redrose View Post
    My God-daughter is dying from breast cancer, she is 43. She had screenings every year. The one in 2013 found a small lump,the size of a pea. They did a radical mastectomy taking two dozen lymph nodes and muscle too. She was badly mutilated, horrible scar, limited the use of her arm. It went downhill from there. She is a guinea pig for their treatments. She looks like she is 80.....a bad 80.

    It is now is every part of her body, her brain, bones, organs. She is in pain daily. The pain meds are too expensive. Insurance didn't cover the meds for nausea radiation caused. She has reached her policy limit and is now dependant on cancer charities to help with her care.

    Is this the best we can do?

    I don't think so. Cancer is big business.
    Google Rick Simpson Oil. Then act. And fark whatever the Law says.
    Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.

    When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.

    Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.

    ............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
    ,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
    ....... Not my circus, not my monkeys

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
    Ooops that goes with the same lie you can keep your doctor and your own insurance policy
    Way to go, Bob. Your empathy score is off the charts, here.
    Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.

    When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.

    Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.

    ............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
    ,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
    ....... Not my circus, not my monkeys

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    As I lay dying

    I am dying, literally, at my home in Hollywood, of metastatic breast cancer, the only kind of breast cancer that kills. For six years I've known I was going to die. I just didn't know when.

    Then, a couple of weeks before Christmas, a new, deadly diagnosis gave me a deadline. No doctor would promise me I'd make it to 2015.

    Promise me, I told my friends and family, that you'll never say that I died after “fighting a courageous battle with breast cancer.” This tired, trite line dishonors the dead and the dying by suggesting that we, the victims, are responsible for our deaths or that the fight we were in was ever fair.

    .....


    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...222-story.html
    Cancer is a lonely,scary disease,and the only satisfaction that means anything to me,Is that I can say I kicked it's ass.....

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