since the call came in …
cancer … the breast …
urgent … don’t rest …

divest of all hope
leap through the hoops
of the main stream mania

lop off that stray appendage
cover the hole with a bandage

and then go forth as if
nothing at all had happened

retrospective, 2006

On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Barbara Wilkie wrote:

Dear Friends:

I've been offline for several days . . . there's a book in that! So I
might have missed this going round, but I've found it just in from a
friend . . . And, truly, it only takes a couple minutes to fill out.
Please feel free to copy info from here if you feel it can help you.

A mastectomy is a horrid experience for the person undergoing it and
if anything can be mentally and physically worse than losing a breast
to cancer, it is the practice of shipping people out following such
surgery without any follow-up care.

Alas, this is not a practice that insurance companies are trying to
make happen, it has already taken place! Talk about brutal, heartless
behavior of the medical industry . . . the practitioners that are
supposed to have as their motto, First do no harm!

And in my comments, which will be directed to Congress, I also added
info about the toxins in fragrances released to market without
substantiation of safety. Therefore, I also mentioned EHN's FDA
petition, 99P-1340 at http://www.ehnca.org/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm
Maybe all of you could add that info also if you add comments to the
online petition to Stop drive through mastectomies.

Thanks for your time and energy on this. . .

barb wilkie
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