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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (4940)	10/1/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7442

lovecards.net I sent this to you via email, because yours was the only email address I could remember! I wasn't sure if everyone could get it, decided to post a url. Go for the Cure! We can win! 909s, Carolyn

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (4940)	10/1/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: levy	Respond to of 7442

the image quality in this photo is terrible..pet images are much better than this but it gives you an idea of what I am talking about....this is a single test that can do a total body screen icppet.org

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (4940)	10/2/1999 4:10:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7442

Howdy Blue so glad UR back! Your list of sponsors for Race For The Cure was impressive & unsurprising... these are all fine Companies and fit right in with you and all who make such a great effort to fight breast cancer. levy, thanks for that info about the optimal pet scan icppet.org not being insurable for breast cancer. Seems as though breast cancer might still be somewhat trivialized, don't like to think it's because (not all but most) of it's victims are women - but why else? Hope Everyone Here Knows We All Have Rights Of Access To The Best Medical Treatments By Request! If an optimum treatment/medicine,labwork, etc. isn't covered by insurance... unless it's a transplant & a few other things denied to anyone older than a certain age or in poor health otherwise - hoping all is ultimately arguable to win at the risk of spending less time with a loved one in their final hours ... if treatment is not covered by insurance, and the patient/family says they'll pay for it by law - it can't be refused or the ability to pay assessed beforehand. Extending the hospital stay If The Patient Has Nowhere To Go (Nowhere To Go, read between the lines hyar) is accomplishable by taking the bull by the horns. When it's Family vs. Hospital wanting that patient out of the bed & anyone with the commonsense of a gnat knows the patient isn't healthy enough to be moved or cared for away from constant medical supervision. That's when it comes down to Whose Team One Plays For... not what'$ right. Getting the care needed to heal First, is Patients Rights. Plenty time later for payment plans and/or filing insurance claims. (Dr. Blue please correct me if wrong hyar as this firsthand info is from a couple years ago........) For example: A few years ago there was a much better test for HIV in donated blood for a transfusion than the test the hospital automatically offered. This optimum test wasn't covered by medicare or insurance even though it cost a few dollars more than the lesser test they were automatically giving. The difference amounted to about the same price they charge for cotton balls or if a nurse gives 2 capsules of tylenol to a patient. Anyway, the test was requested and received because The Family told the Drs. to put it on the bill of course. A newspaper article That Very Day had pulled my coat about it... though no one had volunteered this information they seemed glad we requested it, as in CYA. It was appalling. Hope the CDC Got On that issue by now. Now about some friends of mine, the Mr. is back in the hospital for Bout #2 with leukemia this week. He'd been in remission for almost 2 years...so it's 50/50. She was crying because the Dr. said "Rules Are" he's too old to receive a donor bone marrow transplant should he need it. So his siblings and their kids are being tested. Hope it's a perfect match there. So their battle for optimum treatment starts at the git-go it's the worst news so far but "Its Early Yet". Cold As Ice. So she prays every morning while she's putting on her war paint getting ready to leave for the 10 hours at her dear husband's bedside. Dick & Christine are great people, can you please say a prayer for them both? No one deserves such unnecessary suffering heaped on top of misery from these draining battles over access to treatment. Loved ones put thru the wringer something awful - doctors so frustrated because their healing hands are tied - could sit here for hours writing about it but we all got similar stories of our own, don't we?! Sad. Bigge$t Problem$ with the state of the medical arts is $$$. A great link for Breast Cancer info... mediconsult.com Echoing your words Blue, my sincere thanks to all who fight, they are heroes. 909s, Joan