Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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It's time to add a list of deficiencies. Forget the vitamin D.
Maybe there weren't enough cabana boys in Maui, Jilly. Simple as that.
I wasn't breast feed......?????
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Maybe it was moving from city to city - I was an army brat and we never stayed anywhere more than a couple of years. Or maybe it was staying in the same city - I did that for the last 30 some years. Or both?
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I was adopted and physical abused at a young age (4) and (6-14). Maybe that was it. I learned to hate my body and want to run away. I learned to love it when I got pregnant..... But I did move from home to home until I was adopted at age 5.
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dreamwriter, I'm so sorry you had to live like that. No child deserves that kind of life. I hope you're OK now.0
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I just loved the smell of gas when you are putting it in the car, still do a little. I don't think I had any dippity Do, my hair was too flat for that, would have made it worse. I have eaten my fair share, okay more than my share, of chocolate over the years, so that could be it, and the fried foods could be a contributor, although I don't like them much anymore. I absolutely love black jelly beans, look for a bag with just them in it. It could be the nail polish remover too, I remember using that a lot, but the "gold" jewlery is definitely up high on the list, no telling what was in there that could have caused BC
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It is NOT chocolate. Nope, no way, coudn't be. 1 in 8 women get bc. If it was chocolate it would be 8 in 8.
Didn't you hear about the recent study on chocolate? 90% of people surveyed admitted that they love chocolate. The other 10% were lying.
Leah (whose job is to make sure Hershey's never goes bankrupt)
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Yes, totally, not chocolate.
The black jellybeans strike again!!!!!
And I moved every two months most of my life!
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NOW I understand. The black jellybeans were the only ones I liked.
Leah
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Yes, we cannot blame chocolate or more men would have bc toooooo....... men love chocolate too.
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"1 in 8 women get bc" huh. Maybe the other 7 knew the proper way to carry 2 kids while toting 3 grocery bags of food and an umbrella stroller on their arm up 2 flights of stairs, unlocking the door with the keys in their teeth? We who got bc didn't do it right and so ended up lopsided and stretching those cells until they mutated.
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As long as it's not chocolate, it will be okay, I'm still betting on the burnt marshmellows, I mean they say burnt meat on the grill is bad for you, so why not marshmellows. You know, the weird thing is, I'm not really wanting chocolate these days, I have chocholate here that I haven't even looked at. I do eat some ice cream at night, tell myself it makes my mouth and stomach feel better, but the chocolate isn't even whispering my name. Kind of like my diet coke I guess, I used to drink one as soon as I woke up in the morning, and it just doesn't taste right, so I haven't been wanting one. Just don't tell me that diet coke causes BC, because when my taste buds go back to normal, I'm going back to my diet coke, although I suppose this would be a good time to give it up, or not lol
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Tamara, talk like that gets us a trip to the ER. Chocolate is like gold here, but I congratulate you on being able to control yourself.
Have to disagree with burnt marshmellows too though. Never ate them. My sister would burn hers beyond recognition but I liked mine nice and brown. Maybe it is just marshmellows period, in that case I am in trouble as I am substituting marshmellows for chocolate right now!
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I love milk chocolate, but not chocolate pudding, pie or ice cream. I didn't use to like chocolate milk, but when I was on chemo, I couldn't get enough chocolate milk or pudding. I even liked chocolate ice cream. I used to love diet caffeine coke, but I didn't like it when I was on chemo and I still don't like it. I finished chemo March 19th. It was probably the Tab that I drank years ago. Debbie
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You know, all this time, I've been blaming it on having to wear a uniform to school for 12 (count 'em!) years, but that can't be right, or only Catholics and Recovering Catholics would get bc.
BTW, I think dark chocolate prevents cancer. It prevents me from being unhappy, that's for sure!
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I am almost sure it was all the kleenx or TP we put in our bras to make us look bigger!
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It's the stickers on the fruit we buy.
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Renee - you might like the song by Canadian Nancy White called "Stickers on Fruit". Hilarious.0
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Well girls, I have to say that I am probably a bit of a freak, cause I believe it was those three hairs around each of my nipples that would grow to about a foot long if I didn't pluck them every so often. So, I hereby declare it was those six hairs that gave me bc. I shoulda just left 'em alone and plaited them, after a good shampoo and conditioning treatment of course. What do they say about killing them with kindness?
Sheila.
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Pk0199-I think part of my being able to control my urge for chocolate right now is that everything taste bad, and I would hate to ruin my love of chocolate, because like my diet coke, I fully intend to go back to it when things taste right, I'm sure my not eating all the chocolate in sight is a temporary situation. I love milk chocolate, but not the fancy stuff, never found godiva that appealing, give me hershy's anyday. I wish I could learn to like dark chocolate, might have to work on that when my taste is back to normal.
Does anyone remember Mexican jumping beans? I dropped a pill this morning and couldn't find it, figured it jumped away and it made me think of them. We used to get them when we were kids, no telling what was in them to make them jump, maybe they gave me BC?
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Sheila, do you have a blog yet? You should. I'll show you how to do one if you'd like. You crack me up.0
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sheila- you MAY be on to something there...I thought i was just a wierdo to have those long hairs...now that i think about it they did seem to feel like you were pulling them out from deep within....HMMMM
you know i have noticed since the sisters are gone and i have had no recon that i can't believe how much less I can carry....i guess i used them for more than i thought!!
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The "dust" from "dustless" cat litter. Cleaning or changing cause us to have to inhale that stuff - PHEW!
Or, sitting in front of a fan because I'm too cheap to turn on the central air (why cool the whole house when I'm only in one room at a time!) Ever look at those fan blades? They are magnets for dust and blow it right at you.
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OMG, Sheila!! ROFL & LMAO!! I thought I was the only weirdo with those long, disgusting nipple hairs! Think you're onto sumpin', girl!!
Iodine, what about wearing a Catholic school uniform AND putting kleenex in your bra??? No wonder I was doomed.
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Aussie- me too!!! I was actually happy when they got radiated...
Oh yeah on the mexican jumping beans and those rainbow crystal rocks that grew in water
patoo- me standing under the cooling vent- in the SUBWAY!!!! augh
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KAK, I think it was the knee socks that I had to wear with the Catholic School uniforms that cause my cancer. Or maybe those neckties that I had to wear. They were close to my undeveloped breasts. Or maybe just being Catholic.............
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I think it was something i did in the 80's....not sure what but it must have been horrible cuz not only did it give me BC I think that it gave one of my kids "brain damage!!" maybe even both of them. We had a dicussion today at work and it seems a lot of kids that were born in the 80's are "brain damaged" WHY you ask????why else would they be doing the stupid things they are doing if their brain were fully functional???????
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Let's see, it could be just being Catholic, another lady at my church was dx w/ bc same time I was(she is in her 70's) I wore Catholic school unifroms for 3 years, I love black jelly beans, OMG that is how I got Bc!!
The one thing that really comes to mind is I got it from my sister. WHen we were much younger she use to pinch my "girls" and my aunt told her if she did not stop I would get Breast Cancer!
This thread is fun!! I glad I found it.
Bettysgirl, if it was the 80's, it was probably all the hairspray we used!!!LOL
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OMG...I meet a women at Look Good Feel Better I attended a couple hours away from my home town and said 'you look familiar - I know you from somewhere...' we could not figure out where we knew each other from.
I got a call today - she had interviewed about 7 months ago at my former employers and ran into my old boss today, they got to talking and...Long story short...I used to sit on a yoga ball at work for back support, balance and posture, so did this person...after we reminisced about where we knew each other from and our dx's/tx's (she had her mx 6 days before I had mine), I said 'Do you think sitting on the ball caused our cancer???'
It's a small world...
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No Renee, no blog as yet, sorry!
If they don't find that the nipple hair thingy is the reason, how about all those rock/movie star/school jock/best-friends-brother/brothers-best-friend crushes back in the 'good old days' of our teenage years.
I mean, it was so painful wasn't it? All the stress caused by many hours dreaming of being Mrs Elvis Presley/Roy Orbison/RickyNelson (thanks Arimidex, now I can't even remember their names) or the guy up the road who really floated your boat, and then poof, the boat sinks. We.e.l.l.l. sometimes you got a pash from someones brother, (not one you particularly fancied) and nearly threw up the whole of your last weeks menu, which didn't include someones tongue half way down your throat. Eeeerk! Now I'm making myself dry-retch again.
Don't forget how close the heart is to our newly developing 'girls.' Ohhh, such pain and all those deadly raging hormones, start their travels in our pre-pubescent little pimple-studded chests.
Sheila.
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RachelBC, I wonder if they do a survey on riding the subway if they would find a correlation. I rode it for at least 15 years, during rush hour many times stuffed like sardines and pressed up against some really weird people. Eeeeewwwwww, makes me shiver to remember.
But then, my 2 sisters also rode it, even longer than I did (one still does) and they don't have BC. Guess they got the "clean air" cars.
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