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1. Help Fight Cancer and help my Dad 
This Petition Is Made Up For My Dad. He Has Always Been A Healthy Person Up Till Now but About A Month Ago he Was Diagnosed With Cancer! And Well It's All Over His Body (Lungs, Brain, Stomach, Back, Hip, Chest, Intestints;etc..). So Yea Its Pretty Bad. He's Been On Kemo And Radiation And They Took Him Off For A Week Or So B/c They Claim That The Tumors On His Brain An Lungs Are Shrinkin But To Keep Them Like This We Are Gonna Have To Take Alot Of Money An Alot Of Prayers!
I Truly Know An Believe God Can An Will Heal Him An Restore Him B/C God Still Can Preform Miracles! So All I Ask Is You Please Pray For Him As Well As My Family! An Please Sign This Petition As A Symbol That We Not Only Have Your Prayers But That You Want To help Fight This Diease, Cause Your Signature Could Help Save A Life Of Some One Else! Thank You So Very Much An God Bless!
2. Petition For Disclosure Of All Diagnoses At The Time Of Diagnosis
My son, Shane, was born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). CDH is a birth defect that occurs when the diaphragm does not fully form allowing the abdominal organs to enter into the chest cavity, preventing the lungs from growing. I had an ultrasound at 8 weeks and then another at 8 and a half months. The ultrasound was performed, and they said everything was OK but wouldn't give us any pictures until they gave in to my begging a few weeks later- only to give a picture of Shane's backside. An ultrasound at 8 months gestation on a baby who had virtually no left diaphragm, the majority of his abdominal organs in his chest, 2 heart murmurs, and a displaced heart, and they claimed they saw nothing.
When we requested Shane's medical records a few years later, there it was in black and white on the technician's note- "Stomach missing." They knew something was wrong and never told us, never did more testing, never referred us to a specialist. If we had known, had time to research, we never would have allowed Shane to be treated at the facility that he was transferred to after birth, a hospital with an extremely low CDH survival rate. If we had known, Shane wouldn't have been subjected to the trauma of a transfer and wouldn't have been delivered at a hospital that didn't even have a pediatrician in the building because it was after 5:00 p.m and he wouldn't have suffered many severe complications. Shane died in 1999 at age 6 and a half as a result of these complications. They had no right to withold information that could have saved my son's life.
3. Petition For Standard Certification Of All Ultrasound Technicians
My son, Shane, was born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). CDH is a birth defect that occurs when the diaphragm does not fully form allowing the abdominal organs to enter into the chest cavity, preventing the lungs from growing. I had an ultrasound at 8 weeks and then another at 8 and a half months. The ultrasound was performed, and they said everything was OK but wouldn't give us any pictures until they gave in to my begging a few weeks later- only to give a picture of Shane's backside. An ultrasound at 8 months gestation on a baby who had virtually no left diaphragm, the majority of his abdominal organs in his chest, 2 heart murmurs, and a displaced heart, and they claimed they saw nothing. When we requested Shane's medical records a few years later, there it was in black and white on the technician's note- "Stomach missing." They knew something was wrong and never told us, never did more testing, never referred us to a specialist. If we had known, had time to research, we never would have allowed Shane to be treated at the facility that he was transferred to after birth, a hospital with an extremely low CDH survival rate. If we had known, Shane wouldn't have been subjected to the trauma of a transfer and wouldn't have been delivered at a hospital that didn't even have a pediatrician in the building because it was after 5:00 p.m and he wouldn't have suffered many severe complications. Shane died in 1999 at age 6 and a half as a result of these complications. In the United States, ultrasound technicians do not have to be certified and there is no standards or laws on who can/cannot perform ultrasounds.