Topic: Let's conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
- Posted on: Nov 8, 2007 09:54 pm, edited Nov 8, 2007 09:54 PM by gsg
Posts: 3,398
We have an excellent cohort of diagnosed people here, let's see if we can find the common denominator among us. We've all learned with this disease, we need to doctor ouselves, why not conduct our own scientific research? It can't be that difficult.
I'll go first.
1. how many of you women, in junior high school, ever had a crush on a boy and practiced writing "Mrs. so and so" all over your notebooks?
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phoenix9873… Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 26 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:05 pm
phoenix9873 wrote:
Hum, I so did that, but my hubby swears it's the diet sweetener I have been ingesting for years. I will have to tell him he is wrong because we will now have proof that bc started way back in middle school..lol. I personally think it's because we played with plastic dolls made in, wait for it, CHINA...So there you go ladies, my official diagnosis for what causes bc. Dx 12/2006, 4cm, Stage IIIa, Grade 3, 3/5 nodes, ER+, HER2- |
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gsg Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,398 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:14 pm
gsg wrote:
LOL barbie breast cancer Pardon me if I repeat myself. Can't remember jack.
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TenderIsOur… Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4,341 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:24 pm, edited Mar 19, 2008 01:00 PM
by TenderIsOurMight
TenderIsOurMight wrote:
Dx 6/2001, IDC, Stage II, SLN+, Grade 2, ER/PR+, HER-
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djd Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 788 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:28 pm
djd wrote:
Well, not only did I write my boyfriend's name all over my notebook (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Donna Smith, Scott and Donna Smith, etc.,) I also ate AT LEAST five more servings of french fries than a toddler should eat. Donna
Dx 12/13/2004, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 2, 0/4 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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AlaskaDeb Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,712 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:35 pm
AlaskaDeb wrote:
OH...ME TOOO...I think we are on to something here. I was in love with Mickey Whims...wrote it with a little heart over the "I" instead of a dot! I think that maybe the triple negative connection may be tied to chewing those red plastic wax lips they handed out for halloween when I was a kid. I actualy ate them....I also ate those tiny wax bottles that looked like soda pop bottles full of colored syrup... http://glassylady41.spaces.live.com/
Dx 12/7/2005, IDC, 3cm, Grade 2, 27/32 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2- |
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djd Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 788 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:39 pm
djd wrote:
Oh Deb - that reminds me...I used to SWALLOW my gum! I was always worried it my "stick to my insides" (whatever that means) but maybe it caused my BC. Donna
Dx 12/13/2004, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 2, 0/4 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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TenderIsOur… Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4,341 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:41 pm, edited Mar 19, 2008 01:17 PM
by TenderIsOurMight
TenderIsOurMight wrote:
Dx 6/2001, IDC, Stage II, SLN+, Grade 2, ER/PR+, HER-
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Sandra1957 Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,954 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:48 pm
Sandra1957 wrote:
I married that jr. high school sweetheart. It must be that I've only had sex with one partner, or maybe it was the Bonne Belle Bubble Gum lipstick. I'm always steppin' in and out of crap!
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bluedahlia Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 564 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:52 pm
bluedahlia wrote:
You guys have it all wrong. It was because we burned our bras in the 60's. The fumes ya know. |
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Sandra1957 Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,954 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:55 pm
Sandra1957 wrote:
Now I'm wondering if it's 'cause I wore one as little as possible. Loved those halter tops back in the day. I'm always steppin' in and out of crap!
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gsg Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,398 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:57 pm
gsg wrote:
i wonder if climbing out bedroom windows while being grounded can lead to breast cancer. if so, the research on my own bc can end right here. Pardon me if I repeat myself. Can't remember jack.
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gsg Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,398 |
Nov 8, 2007 10:59 pm
gsg wrote:
either that or perhaps eating elmer's glue in elementary school Pardon me if I repeat myself. Can't remember jack.
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NicRic Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 32 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:01 pm
NicRic wrote:
I've heard that bc is caused by being extra nurturing. Apparently in my town, school teachers and school bus drivers have an inordinately high rate of bc. Now I'm not a school teacher or a bus driver, so I'm thinking mine must have been caused by the love that I have for my beloved cat, Trixie. Nicole
Dx 7/7/2007, IDC, <1cm, Stage I, Grade 1, 4/3 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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phoenix9873… Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 26 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:07 pm
phoenix9873 wrote:
Gasp, I know it's all that great smelling nasty tasting chapstick I ate as a child, well after Barbie of course. I still maintain that she has something to do with it, perfect breast, tiny waist and that long beautiful hair, she was jealous of us and had something to do with our bc..see now we have no breast, wider waist and no hair and it's all her fault. Plus she likes pink way to much!! lol Dx 12/2006, 4cm, Stage IIIa, Grade 3, 3/5 nodes, ER+, HER2- |
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Bugs Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,363 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:09 pm
Bugs wrote:
My Dad made me eat lutefisk every year. I knew that boiled snot was no good even back then. I blame lutefisk. Bugs The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. Frederick Buechnerr
Dx 2/1/2006, IDC, 6cm+, Stage IIIa, Grade 3, 3/16 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2- |
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Sandra1957 Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,954 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:12 pm
Sandra1957 wrote:
It's all starting to make sense....It's the Barbie Conspiracy. Walking down too many aisles of pink at Target buying Barbies for my daughter did it. I'm always steppin' in and out of crap!
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AlaskaDeb Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,712 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:14 pm
AlaskaDeb wrote:
LOLOL at bugs!!! Our church had a lutefisk dinner every year. the biggest part of the joke is that our pastor is a vegetarian!! We all swear it is so that he doesn't have to eat the hot fish jello! LOLOL I will make sure and let him know he is officially safe from breast cancer...our research proves it! http://glassylady41.spaces.live.com/
Dx 12/7/2005, IDC, 3cm, Grade 2, 27/32 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2- |
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gsg Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,398 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:26 pm, edited Nov 8, 2007 11:26 PM
by gsg
gsg wrote:
LOL@lutefisk. I was raised in Minnesota, too, Bugs. uh-oh...hotdish. Pardon me if I repeat myself. Can't remember jack.
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gsg Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,398 |
Nov 8, 2007 11:28 pm, edited Nov 8, 2007 11:28 PM
by gsg
gsg wrote:
mattell should make a barbie using ken's chest & barbie's head and call her breast cancer barbie. i'm still at work and getting to that slap-happy stage...sorry. Pardon me if I repeat myself. Can't remember jack.
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celia088 Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,589 |
Nov 9, 2007 12:18 am
celia088 wrote:
In my case it was either-- because of all the illicit drugs i did in the 60's, OR........ all the chemicals, acids, and solvents i inhaled while doing and teaching lithography, OR.......it was because my mother always told me that "God would punish me for the way i acted." LOL!!!! funny topic! "May your heart always be joyful, May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young"........Bob Dylan
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2up Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,431 |
Nov 9, 2007 12:30 am
2up wrote:
well............ i had a barbie "head" that you could put make-up on and style her hair (kinda freaky actually with her giant barbie lips and all) .......... i left 'her' under my desk lamp one night, shortly after i got her, and melted her and her 'beautiful barbie hair' all to sh!t ........... the fumes were enough to gag a maggot and the tongue lashing i got for being so 'careless' and 'irresponsible' and 'ungrateful' have surely caused my plight today! damn that mattel .............. they do not know what havoc they reek! |
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iodine Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 7,682 |
Nov 9, 2007 01:02 am
iodine wrote:
Well, I did the name thing, ate the wax lips and was too old for Barbie ----BUT--- I went barefoot on hot asphalt streets!! and in summer visits to the farm, barefoot in the chicken yard (eweeeuuu) I lived in a house with asbestos shingles, had gas floor furnaces, ate food fried in lard, drank unpasturized milk, and I remember my mom having a sign in the window for what size ice bloce she wanted for the ice box!!! (can I really BE that old??) Dotti---BE NOT AFRAID, Pope John Paul
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Timtam Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 783 |
Nov 9, 2007 01:07 am
Timtam wrote:
I've heard that you can get cancer by being too naughty. I highly believe it's true. Because when I was a teen, I sneaked into my parents bedroom from time to time, checked their drawers and counted how many condoms were left since I last checked. Or maybe in a science class, I put a tampon in a beaker full of water to see how large it expands. Hugs, Fumi Fumi
Dx 7/7/2005, IDC, 3cm, Stage II, Grade 1, 0/9 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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ravdeb Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 3,053 |
Nov 9, 2007 01:52 am
ravdeb wrote:
It is probably the Tressy doll thing. Remember how you could pull her hair longer? I do believe it's the motion of pulling hair that did and then..those wax lips for the triple neg and finally...when tests were passed out I would first sniff them as they were fresh off that copy machine (chemo brain..what is that called???) It has FOR SURE caused my breast cancer. As a teacher I had to work hours in the teacher's office running papers off... |
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ravdeb Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 3,053 |
Nov 9, 2007 01:53 am
ravdeb wrote:
Oh and then the re-using of milk cartons for hopscotch! |
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celia088 Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,589 |
Nov 9, 2007 03:38 am
celia088 wrote:
ravdeb, uh-oh, i sniffed mimeograph papers too!!!! Yikes. celia "May your heart always be joyful, May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young"........Bob Dylan
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caaclark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 779 |
Nov 9, 2007 06:00 am
caaclark wrote:
Maybe it was the gallons of Aquanet hairspray I used in the 80's? Carol Diag.1/06 at age 40, 1.6cm, 6+nodes, stage IIb/IIIa, er/pr+, her2-, chemo, mast. rads, no recon
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ravdeb Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 3,053 |
Nov 9, 2007 06:36 am
ravdeb wrote:
TimTam..I am now thinking, as I go over the results of this study thus far, that naughtiness just may be the item. I wonder who was NOT naughty! *rolling pennies down the long aisle during library class. *making noise in Hebrew class just to get kicked out. to name a few... |
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catinthehat… Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 34 |
Nov 9, 2007 06:49 am
catinthehat wrote:
"Chatty Cathy" told me I was going to get bc. Yup. I just couldn't get her to tell me when. jackie
Dx 11/16/2005, IDC, 1cm, Stage IIa, 2/14 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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forgivenmom… Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 3 |
Nov 9, 2007 06:53 am
forgivenmom wrote:
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! You ladies made my day. I'm reading this on my lunch break at work...In another country...and you have me cracking up. So funny thinking about all these things I used to do. Thanks for the smile. katherine |
