Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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I am convinced it was my 20+ years of birth control pills.
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I was wrong before, I really got breast cancer because I secretly eat Twinkies.
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I think it was all the hair spray we used on our hair in the 80's. I had a pet gerbil that lived in a cage near my mirror. My dad claims he died of hair spray asphixiation. Maybe he really died of hair spray induced cancer!
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I think Amy may be right- hair spray. I know my hair was HUGE for at least,ummmm- 7 years. Thats a lot of fumes.
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It's housework, I tell ya - housework!
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patoo, I'm with you, its housework!
oh wait, I don't really do housework, I just think about how I ought to do some housework . . my g*d, housework is awfully dangerous--merely thinking about causes breast cancer. . . .
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3montstmama, you've hit it on the head. In principle I agree with Patoo that housework causes bc, but then anyone will look at my house and say, "How in the world did she get mets?" so it must be that I think about what needs doing (and don't do it).
snort snicker snicker.
Leah
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I'm cracking up at this thread....my sister and I were diagnosed 6 months apart in our early and mid forties...( no BRCA ) oldest child, middle child might be it... our spoiled baby sister so far is clear! We've decided to blame our mom ( LOL ). ... It's all the McDonald's and TV dinners we ate!
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Yeah, TV dinners - what was in that cardboard anyway (and I mean the food, not the packaging!)
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What do you mean? That weird pressed turkey and dressing with the little space for the cranberry (ick) pie that always ran into the mash potatoes -- oh yeah cardboard....
I'm sure that's it... Or it could be my mom's meatloaf with that strip of ketchup on top ... then again I loved to eat paste ... that might be it... remember the one in the circular jar?
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Hey, Lmflynn, I STILL make that meatloaf, and it's a family fav - can't be carcinogenic!
I'm sticking with the ever popular mosquito truck theory - I remember those white clouds settling on our backyard - one of the thrills of summer. Or maybe it was the "Duck and Cover" drills. I think having to hide under my second-grade desk to save my heinie from nuclear obliteration probably jacked up my cortisol levels which, many, many years later, exploded into BC.
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Ok not her meatloaf...she'll be happy to hear this...but I refuse to request it on my next visit.....she's from small town Alabama...and I love her fried okra ....oh no maybe that's it.....
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Hmmmmmm, the fried okra and catfish! Hey I'm a northerner but visited a friend in Alabama once several years ago so maybe that is it because it was the first (and last) time I ever ate okra.
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It has to be the mousse I used for my hair in the 80s. It was "Chocolate Mousse" for brounettes that looked and smelled like the kind you eat. Trust me, though, it DOES NOT taste like chocolate mousse! I was stupid enough to lick some off my fingers, so I am quite sure my BC came from the non-edible chocolate mousse
Patoo, I am in Central NJ too (Monmouth County)
Sherrill
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Oh you ladies are hilarious!! What a great thread for a laugh!
I personally like the "secretly eating twinkies"! lol!
I have had people ask me questions all the time like "did you breastfeed?", etc. Like they are fishing for something I did "wrong" that will make them think it won't happen to them.
I'm going to start telling them that, based on a scientific "study" conducted through a highly respected "Breast Cancer Organization" that a undisputed conclusion revealed that eating twinkies and reading too many "People" magazines did me in! lol!
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Well if hair mousse does it.... My Shaper hair spray I've used for over 20 years ... Or those pink foam rollers I slept in....and put in for gym class.....could that be it???
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Gymsuits. That's got to be a part of it at least. An insult to a beautiful adolescent body - and I mean everybody's beautiful adolescent body. So our bodies rebelled and - bc.
Leah
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I read the People magazine too!!! Managed to make it through the 80s without much hairspray however.
I ate raw cake batter...not Christmas cake, but cake nonetheless. Okay...must be Mom's fault for letting me eat it!
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You all are not listening to me - housework is the culprit. But I bet those people on TV who did their housework all dressed up and in high heels didn't get BC. So, it was the housework being done in sweats and shorts that caused it.
SusansGarden, no one is gonna believe it was twinkies and People Mag but I bet if you tell them, with a straight face, that it was breathing the fumes while doing housework that you will get some clueless people believing you. What fun!
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Oh definitely the hairspray of the 80's and I loved to use my Mom's Final Net which was still being made in the 80's since the 60's? LOL It could be raining and I still had big hair!
But then again, It could be all the diet pop accompanied by a candy bar that I have drank since 8th grade! ;-)
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There may be something to the pink foam hair roller theory. I used the foam ones as well as hard cylindrical pink and purple plastic one with little points sticking out of them. (In my mind's eye, they were spiky and hurt the scalp.)
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Barbies definitely come to mind, saw that on the front page here- had to be the original Barbie Camper we used to sit on and scoot around the floor on...I can still smell the plastic patio awning!
Still thinking about the Final Net Hairspray I breathed in all through the 70's from Mom's brillo pad style haircut and then in the 80's I used to keep my hair big!
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Hmmmm, brillo pads and the pink soap. Pink hair rollers, pink soap in brillo - pink for the month of October - sounds like a connectin here?
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Wow. You got it patoo. A pink conspiracy or a conspiracy of all things pink. Pink sure fooled them. Maybe "pink" is jinxing the research too.
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Ladies, you are so funny!! I've been cracking up at this thread. I think you are on to something with the pink theory. I think it was pink Love's Baby Soft perfume. That, and my pink girly bed sheets that overstimulated my nurturing instincts, which kicked in too much estrogen...well, at this point, I can blame it on dolls. It all started when I was given my first doll at age 1.
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Definitely!
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More pink: My Dancerina doll!
Ditto on the Love's Babysoft!
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Dancerina dolls, ballet slippers and ballet tights, which scientifically proven, affects the lymphatic system, especially if they are pink. Studies have shown it does not matter the exact shade of pink, pale, flamingo, fuscia, it all has the same detrimental effect. Dang it, it was all that pink.
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Ditto on the Love's Babysoft. As babies we were probably dressed in pink caps and booties, thus sealing our fate. One can also logically conclude that blue causes prostate cancer. Brilliant reasoning.
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LOL!!
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