Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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Oh I was clearly doomed. Jujubes, pixie sticks, sweet tarts, giant wax lips, sugar babies, gum balls and every known kind of chocolate - I had them all, in large quantities.
It could also have been the Peperidge Farm Milano cookies. When I was a skinny teenager, I used to eat a bag of those cookies a day and never gain an ounce. I think they caused my BC.
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ljh58, I remember chasing the mosquito truck too, wasn't much excitement here then. I also went barefoot all the time, and drank well water you add that to the burnt marshmellows and it's no wonder I got BC. Oh yeah, I've been told I ate some dog food too, the dry kind not the can, yuck, but I wouldn't swear to that
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I chased the mosquito truck too!!! inhaling that toxic crap! Our development was built on what used to be a "swamp". Doomed.
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Remember the candy lipssticks with all the red dye? There was a candy counter in a store that was a block from my house. I used to walk around the block picking up discarded pop bottles and turn them in, then I would buy candy. Back then 10 cents went a long way LOL
You name it I ate it!
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My parents would get me baby ducks for Easter. When summer came and I would swim in my little pool, my pet ducks would swim with me. Mother had a fit, but I thought it was fun. She must have been right. Also stepping on nails and not telling parents. I don't remember getting tentenus shots. Such fun we had! We just had no idea what it could cause. Now we know. Debbie
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Another one, breaking off icicles from the brooder house and licking the icicles. Debbie
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Maybe it is catching all those fireflys and putting them into a jar and they are getting back with me.
I really enjoy this thread. It is fun to see what comes to everyones mind.
I can remember this one date whenI was 17 or so. This guy didn't mean to, but somehow he elbowed me in my left boob - the one that is now gone. It reminds me of the scene in Grease at the driveinn.
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What about "Curl Free" to make curly Italian hair straight. I used it all through high school. That was a potent product and I thought I would be punished some day for not accepting my heritage. I also ironed my hair on a regular basis to look like the cool girls. Think there's a connection? I also wore a "push up" bra to make my boobs get noticed. What a naughty girl I was! All that bumping and grinding in the back seat couldn't have helped much. Many of us were all professional virgins back in the 60s so grinding was our only option. Again, Catholic guilt will get us every time.
rreynolds1
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I have been thinking about this all day, (I can't get motivated to do housework), I think I am closer to my answer. My parents could not afford to buy me real go-go boots, they made me wear the plastic ones. I am sure the cancer started spreading from my feet. Who would have guessed wearing those and singing Sonny and Cher songs would cause these problems?
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Sandy.. I wore the real boots and I got bc twice!! lol
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Okay ljh58 I guess there is something to this Catholic guilt thing. I did not go to Catholic school, but had to go to those Saturday classes. One day the priest gathered all the classes together and spoke to us about evil. He told us if we ever played between our legs that something bad would happen to us. You guessed it, I played, have 3 children and now I have bc. I should have listened.
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ljh, eureka!!!! It's the salt block. We used to steal carrots from a nearby garden......got over to the cow pasture and dunk the carrots in the trough (likely a used oil tank) and then rub them on the salt block. Mmmmmm they were delicious. I also used to eat the chunks of molasses in the cow feed.
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So if it's the Catholic guilt, how did this Jewish girl get bc? Of course, Jewish mothers do a good job of laying on the guilt. I should know - I have 6 kids and I am a PROFESSIONAL guilt-causer.
From what I understand, Italian mothers are just as good. (I feel sorry for Italian Jewish kids)
Leah
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I am not catholic. My mom grew up in a Lutheran church, my dad a congregational church and his mom was Jewish. So what's up with that? I lived for a portion of years in an Italian -all kids went to a catholic school- neighborhood and the first summer I was there, the kids wouldn't talk to me cause the vatican at the time said I would go to hell because I wasn't Catholic. Then the vatican switched to a different pope and suddenly the kids could talk to me. At least that was my remembrance of it all. No matter what, I've been dammed at certain points throughout my life, why should I be surprised? I
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Holtbolt-I went to your link to vote for Max but am not sure I actually voted. I clicked on the 'thumbs up' symbol. I didn't see a 'vote' here place to click. Let me know if I need to redo my vote and I hope your son wins!!!
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Me, too. I clicked on the thumbs up.
I wasn't a bad kid, but everytime my parents would leave and say don't do this, I would do whatever they told me not to do. Or, my mother used to telll me all these things I shouldn't do, like don't walk under the ladder, don't step on a crack in the sidewalk. If I had put something on backwards, I couldn't take it over my head but pull my arms out and turn it around. If I forgot something and had to walk back in the house, I had to walk out backwards. Needless to say, I generally did whatever they told me not to do. Should have listened.
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Leah_S, I wonder if Catholic or Jewish guilt gives you hormone positive bc?
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I voted too!
I'm hormone positive and neither Catholic nor Jewish.
Maybe I got it from drinking out of jelly jars which we used instead of glasses.
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Jelly jars? I should have been so lucky.
Jews light a 24-hour memorial candle on the anniversary of a relative's death. The candle usually comes in a glass - and, yup, my grandparents (who raised a family during the Depression) kept them. They were always a pretty shape, so my sisters an I would take turns usning them. Now THAT is probably what did it.
Leah
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My family had a matched set of jelly jars. I thought it was like matching china. Welch's grape jelly was the best. We were recycling before it was in vogue. I want to thank you all for such a great day, I laughed with all of your witty responses. Wouldn't this make such a great TV show, like Laugh In?
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Sandygirl, you're right and I'm in tears right now reading these. "matched set of jelly jars" - we had them. Leah, could you tell which relative you were drinking from - oh, the tears; I can't stop laughing.
I love you ladies!
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Could it be those candy necklaces? You wore them around your neck for days and then ate them. Toxic I tell ya.
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My mother collected the jelly jars, plus we had a man that used to drive the Omar truck. She got the Jewel Tea matching dinnerware from him. Plus, he had the best breakfast rolls with cream in them and icing on top. I loved it when he stopped at our house. I'm not Catholic or Jewish, but my mother sure knew how to lay guilt trips! All the stress from all the guilt we have grown up with.
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reen- masterbation, troll dolls, candy necklaces- and look, we have the same cancer. (your 1st dx) but did you also chew on pencils?
stiff stuff in the 80s? Mousse... mousse... and more mousse...
Let me clear up the whole Jewish/Catholic guilt thing:
Only Jews and Catholics can compete in the Guilt Olympics
and you know why Jews don't have confessional? Because you'd never get us OUT of there... can you just see it... someone who has to listen to everything we've done wrong? Oy, where do I begin? Sounds like free therapy.
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Grape Jelly from the jars with the flintstones on it.
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Regarding the Jewish/Catholic monopoly on guilt. I once had a Baptist preacher tell me at bible school that If I continued to ask questions about the things being taught that God would surely get me. So I think it is having a brain and asking for clairificaton when things didn' t add up that gave me BC
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Merilee, Merilee... this is not the stuff of the Guilt Olympics... (although it may have given you BC) lemme illustrate:
Jewish mother gives you 2 scarves as a gift. You wear one to visit her. She says: "What's the matter, you don't like the other one?"
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LOL I see.
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I have read nine pages... I will continue... but wanted to add......
I want to add an international perspective, I reside in NZ so may of your products are unknown to me... but there is definitely some common links.......
So here it goes:
Barbie, would have to be my personal biggest contender.... how common is BC in males.......? How many men played with barbie........
Being Naughty
Sexual Hormones, whether it is a crush, or yearning for it, or making up, or doing a marathon effort, or how many, making sex fun (including Bob), possibly an increase of breast stimulation in sexual activities, love bites,.
I think living in the 70s 80s....... would also have to be a contender, from hairspray, to makeup, to perfumes, to diets, to music,
I think there is also common factors in sugar stuff but that is where the specialists already have links....we talk about gum, artificial sugar, licourice, m&m, sugar buns, beer, even watermelon would have natural sugar juices....... etc
I also believe underwire bras, and chemiclas in the bras.... and injuries from when the underwire falls out....
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Some of yous ate play dough- I chewed on silly putty!! OMG!!!
Or maybe the JuJU B candies--it sounds so spooky!! But I really think it was the paper from the candy dots!!
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