Woman Without Insurance Survives Breast Cancer
Woman Without Insurance Survives Breast Cancer
Woman survives breast cancer and reconstructive surgery, without health insurance.
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" It is only two weeks since cancer survivor Margarito much -- do -- breast reconstruction surgery and just take a quick -- Part of our cardinals really good arm until recently she need insurance she would never have -- complete figure again. It was two years ago when this 42 year old mother of two teams from Riverside learned that she had breast cancer. "
" Because -- hundreds and I went to. Ability to have my. Name on the ground and on their car all your client that they can't. That county that you -- And you kind of get out I don't know health -- and how many is it."
" Distraught Margarita return to Riverside and started making some phone calls. After on the phone she's on clinic -- medic up Emilia. In corona. They connected her with a program that paid for her double mastectomy. And her first attempt at breast reconstructive surgery -- con. -- O'Brien -- structure that -- the reconstructive surgery it was eventually completed but aggressive radiation treatments created some complications. Her left implant eventually had to be removed. She held little hope her left breast would ever be reconstructed."
" It was picked that place that would still leave it with all. So horrible it and it might every -- what can be -- you know you're talking about twenty to 50000. Dollars worth of operation. Center."
" Plastic surgeon doctor Michael technically the medical director of cosmetic care. Forty years ago He founded the magic mirror foundation. It's a nonprofit that performs plastic surgery on battered women and children in need."
" How could we make these people look and -- better about themselves when they looked in the mirror we started doing it. Kept split in this country a -- more of the domestic violence type women and children and that -- grew grow grow."
" This past year the magic mirror foundation. Started -- performing reconstructive surgery to cancer survivors however that an economy wrote that -- I -- I guarantee that woman was also a cancer survivor. And Mac and I can't MI and -- wrote a letter to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation in Orange County they introduced her to the magic mirror foundation."
" Two weeks. -- it completely normal."
" Doctor -- on -- market."
" Marguerite surgery a couple of Arabic and that's progress. That -- and this is too weak outlooks on the."
" I know I'm happy I know how work and show them how grateful I am Kiki. Everything that I and all the clearly is that I. King gave it to them never going to be enough."
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