Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer

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  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 418
    edited July 2010

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  • happytobealive
    happytobealive Member Posts: 2
    edited June 2009

    Well, we might be on to something here. I had plenty of crushes but mine started earlier. In Elementary school I I would say. I think it had to something to do with those boxes that you asked them to sign. Do you like me? Mark the box. Yes or NO....lol

    Regarding the Barbie dolls....hum, I'd have to say it's because they didn't have any private parts when I made Ken and Barbie make out. I think it was due to the on going frustration and pain I caused them....Bad Karma...LOL

  • Gramof3
    Gramof3 Member Posts: 111
    edited June 2009

    I believe my bc was caused by all the white school paste I ate when I was in the first grade, back in the 50's.  Miss Hazel Smith, the teacher, would put a square of brown paper towel on each desk, then, using a tongue depressor, smack down a big dollop of white paste on the towel.  By the time she got to the end of our row, two of my girlfriends and I would have eaten our paste. We'd have to "borrow"  from other kids--who finally got tired of sharing and ratted us out. 

  • dkhancock1948
    dkhancock1948 Member Posts: 181
    edited June 2009

    Maybe it was some of dances that I did in the 60s.  I am dating myself, too.  How about the jerk, the monkey or the swim?

  • debbie6122
    debbie6122 Member Posts: 2,935
    edited June 2009

    ohhhhhhhh what about the monster mash??

    Reen- yes i did and it hurt too, lol

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 439
    edited June 2009

    Hey girls, I just remembered and I hope some of you do too!  I used (60's) to wear those bras that pushed your boobs into a funnel shape while lifting them up almost level with the chin, ala Jayne Mansfield/Sabrina.  Made jumpers (sweaters) look like Twin Peaks.  I still find the rounded look of today chests rather 'melony' if you know what I mean.

    Sheila.

  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 679
    edited June 2009

    eating the school paste, and covering my hands with rubber cement so I could rub them together to make little balls...

  • nelia48
    nelia48 Member Posts: 42
    edited June 2009

    I age the paste in my paste jar when I was in kindergarten!!!!  Remember waaaaay back when and we had to bring in a little jar and the teacher would fill it with that white, thick paste?????   I just loved the taste of that!!!!

    I, too , remember the mosquito fogging trucks coming through when camping in NJ!!!!!

    But I'm convinced the biggest cancer causing thing for me was because I snuck out into the woods while camping and dropped my pants and pooped in the weeds!!!!!  I was scared to death of the spiders in the outhouse!!!!

  • dkhancock1948
    dkhancock1948 Member Posts: 181
    edited June 2009

    When I went mushroom hunting, it seemed like I always had to go to the bathroom. Like you, Nelia48, I dropped my drawers, too.  I was afraid there would be snakes in the outhouse.  Maybe it was hanging upside down on my swing set.

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited June 2009

    wow- ya'll have been buy while i was away!!

    GUMBY!! THAT"S IT!! Or was it sweet honesty perfume , i used Charlie also..caught tons of lightining bugs, ate my share of burnt marshmallows and hotdogs..

    Could it be the wax bottles with sweet sugary something in them???

    I really think that it was wearing jeans so tight the squished your stomach up to your chest, then you last your breath bending over to put on your shoes so you just slipped into a pair of candies..THEN you put on your TUBE TOP and went on your way...those tube tops jsut squished our boobs and caused permanent damage!!

    Maybe it was watching flipper and gillians island too much...or could it be that sleeping on those top bunks at summer camp did us in???

    Maybe it's punishment for riding in the country while drinking beer in a bottle and then throwing them out trying to hit the road signs....

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited June 2009

    Heck- I'll admit it now!! it's because i didn't take Patoo with me on vacation!!!!

    So i gues i'll go find some pixie sticks, play with my barbies and then go out and chase the mosquito truck...then i'll come in and watch some Hogans Heroes on the old fogey station and wash it all down with some red Koolaid..dang I wish i could find a TAB instead...or a FANTA..

  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 468
    edited June 2009

    Love this thread!

    I think I got BC (twice) from:

    using a talcum powder instead of deoderant

    eating the little mini section in the centre of the orange - someone in elementary school told me it causes cancer so it must be true

    eating "camping toast" - bread fried in bacon fat cooked over an outdoor stove

    putting my feet in those x-ray machines as a kid to see the bones all eerie in green

    and most likely of all, as some of you have suggested, my ex - in any number of ways.

  • Emily2008
    Emily2008 Member Posts: 30
    edited June 2009

    I most DEFINITELY got my breast cancer from eating play-dough.  You know how lovely it is when it's fresh out of the container, before some snotty kid gets his fingers all over it?  Ah, what a sight, and who can resist eating some?  Not me, that's for sure.

    If the play-dough eating didn't give me breast cancer, then I probably got it from using too much Bonnie Bell lip gloss, which I also sometimes ate.  Yes, I probably do have some sort of psychiatric condition that compels me to eat things which are unedible.

  • Gramof3
    Gramof3 Member Posts: 111
    edited June 2009

    Kowabunga!  I forgot about the x-ray machines at the shoe store!

    Or it could have been the dried peas I stuffed up my nose when I was three.

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited June 2009

    no, remember that ol' nasty dance, the grind!   All that rubbing probably did it.

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited June 2009

    lets see now, we "trained" our breasts to be breasts, we pushed them up with wires, then we "minimized" them to make our shirts fit better (some of us anyway) we squished them with tube tops, jiggled them around in bikini tops at the pool, baked half of them in the sun at the beach and then after being subjected to all that they just gave up in frustration because they didn't know what the heck  they were supposed to do.......

    NAW it was those colored soap crayons that we used in the tub to color the tile walls and each other! the dye seepd in our skin and caused the BC!!!

    No i got it!!! anyone who ever faked an orgasm has this stuff!!!! HAS to be it!!!

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited June 2009

    Ohhhhhhhh, cheating could have done it.  My first job was as a stenographer and I only passed the test because I looked at the previous applicants shorthand (cause I couldn't read mine!).  Just knew that would catch up with me someday - yeah, over 40 years ago but...

  • dkhancock1948
    dkhancock1948 Member Posts: 181
    edited June 2009

    It was my junior high phys ed class when all the girls had to put their hands together and push to the words of "we must, we must, we must develop our bust" that gave me bc. Or our training bras - they trained us for the wrong thing.

  • kjbell
    kjbell Member Posts: 454
    edited June 2009

    It was my boob envy of my Barbie doll that brought it on. I wasn't happy with what I had. I wanted nice boobs that stood straight out like Barbie! With my tissue expander in place, I am kinda there!

  • reen
    reen Member Posts: 45
    edited June 2009

    It was because we only ate the middle of those Oreo cookies.  The chocolate cookie part would have saved us.

  • pattybelle
    pattybelle Member Posts: 10
    edited June 2009

    it was definitely doing the hustle...Disco FOREVER...first kiss slow dancing to the Bee-Gees, "How deep is your love"...

  • holtbolt
    holtbolt Member Posts: 302
    edited June 2009

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  • Gramof3
    Gramof3 Member Posts: 111
    edited June 2009

    Holtbolt, that is GREAT.  Our families take it on the chin when we go through this--glad you can give him this surprise.

    Patoo  You mean grinding can cause bc??? I thought it just caused babies.  Oh noooo!Surprised

    O.K. confession:  I'm too old to have had a Barbie; I was way out of high school and college when the Hustle and Disco came along; PE classes back then did not include health (God forbid we talk about our bodies) BUT, Bettysgirl, even though we didn't have the soap crayons back then, after I read your post, I think you may be on to something--two out of three ain't bad! 

  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 679
    edited June 2009

    roflmao... Candies.... Tube Tops... too much TV oh yeah that's got to be it... but then I didn't go near Charlie... I was Love's Baby Soft .... and then Opium... but now all perfume makes my get a rash...

    we were throwing KFC chicken out the window to hit the mailboxes from cars, but I learned that from the boys in DC.... we didn't do that at home in PA....

    I have big boobs so I didn't have a training bra.. but those stretchy bras I wore until my boobs started going off to the sides... and I had to wear a safety pin in my button down shirts to "mind the gap"

    and I also never faked an orgasm, I think you are on to something there... 

    congrats Holtbolt! 

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited June 2009

    hotbolt that is SOOO awesome!!Congrats!!!

    I don't know...my mind is running on empty tonight..Have we run the gambit of every possible idea..NOPE someone will come up with something soon...hopefully by tomorrow I will have one for us...

    hey!! maybe it was my mood ring that caused this stuff, or could it be that spoon ring someone gave me for my birthday??

  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 679
    edited June 2009

    MOOD RINGS!!! ha!  me too.

    and backcombing my hair to make it bigger in the 80s... and Stiff Stuff and Aquanet!!!!!!! 

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited June 2009

    Bettysgirl, I also wonder if someone will be able to come up with other stuff.

    me too with the Mood Rings. 

    But how about the "rings" I wore from cigars?  Maybe the tobacco had seeped into the paper and then transferred to my finger.

  • Sandygirl
    Sandygirl Member Posts: 15
    edited June 2009

    Patoo, then your finger touched your breast, there might be something to that.  I remembered that we use to drink Fizzies, you put them in water, then they turned into a fizzy drink.  I bet the red ones were the culprit.   

  • ccbaby
    ccbaby Member Posts: 503
    edited June 2009
    Rachel...I hear you on the AquaNet! I couldn't live without that stuff back then!
  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    Watching kiddie videos over and over and over and over and over and over and over, ad nauseum - my eyeballs turned inward and focused on my cells which turned into BC cells.