Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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Now, Melissa, tomorrow i am going to hunt some down! its funny, i am about 12 lbs over what i consider my normal adult weight, and i have hardly been interested in eating or cooking for months now. i am going to blame it on the femara, and that's even with amping up my activity level..... but i noticed the other day, that i am beginning to enjoy the process of making a good meal again. bout time, s'been about two years! yay! cause i love good food. haven't made a pie in three years, though, this fall am looking forward to rhubarb! not enough rhubarb as a youth! If i ever go to texas, i hope you will let me enjoy your company! and food!
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I'd love to Kath and you'd be welcome, but I'll let you keep the rhubarb. My granny loved it and it was always so pretty but I never could learn to like it.
I go through spells on cooking. The nice thing about living alone is that I only do it when I want to.
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that IS a nice thing about living alone!
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I remember fried bologna. Was almost a staple because bologna was cheap. That on white bread could be candidate for causing BC.
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OOHhh I remember fried bologna, mmmm with eggs on a piece toast. poor man's egg mcmuffin? I've decided it's due to all of the Fundip I ate as a kid. That colored sugar dipped on a strange hard sugar stick? Maybe it was full of estrogen or something. Those artificial colors are bad for you now, but they still sell it. Maybe there should be a warning on the package?
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Speaking of Fundip, what about pixy sticks? I used to love those as a kid, I ate both the powder candy in the paper straws and the plastic straws, maybe that's what caused my cancer!
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that's funny, i just found some pixie stix the other day, and it was all i could do not to buy them. they were like sweet AND tart. it was at andersons pea soup resteraunt on the way back from san luis obispo.
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Has anyone mentioned candy cigarettes? I developed a pack-a-day habit when I was 7.
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gsg, that's why you probably "can't remember jack" either
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My sister ordered candy cigarettes off Amazon a couple of years ago to give out at Halloween just to piss people off.
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I loved this candy cigarettes too. And the ones that were made with bubble gum and you could blow on them and powdered sugar came out and looked like smoke. Could be all that "smoke" I "inhaled" as a kid? I thought I was so cool, ugh oh, another "C" word. Seems everything makes it back to the dreaded C.
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You ladies make being a Mod so much easier. Love your sense of humor and using laughter as therapy.
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My brothers and I used to feel so "cool", smoking away on our candy cigs!
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there is a store near my house, that sells all of those nostalgia candies. remember those colored dots on paper? or those little tiny licorice ones covered in colored sugar? those were always favorites of mine... and when i would pick out a donut, i would pick one of those what i would call 'pharmaceutical' ones, white frosted with tiny colored, tiny time capsule looking ones... hmmm, ALL of my candies etc, now that i think of it, looked like...DRUGS!! uh-oh.
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Love the "tiny time capsule looking ones" - heehee. I remember the candy cigarettes and the candy you peeled off the paper. Probably the candy was okay but the paper, some of which was still stuck to the candy as you ate it, probably was the culprit. No telling what they laced the paper with to get the candy to stick.
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....heheheheh,patoo! Wax lips, and little bottles. mmmmmmbit o honey.
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Ever notice how Good & Plenty are white and PINK????????
Leah
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I don't know- we all grew up without cell phones, video games, ate candy cigs, played kick the can until dark and played in the rain. We either damaged out feet kicking the can and sent the bad cells to the boobs, the candy cigs WERE carcinogenic or the rain soaked those BC cells right to the boobs..Girls we were killing ourselves without even knowing it!!
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Has any one thought about begging for a "training bra?" I so wanted breasts I'd stuff socks in my older sister's bras. Ha!
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ok, heres one: i was such a tomboy, and was moving too fast for anyone to notice that i really needed a bra! i think one of the neighbor ladies told my mom that i did. then, my mom was so proud of them, she made me pull up my top to show all of her friends. so i was mortified. mortification by breast exposure= future BC?
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Yes, that was nudity. Your mom could go to jail today for making you perform for her friends. One of those ladies may have stared so hard that the cells mutated to get away from her.
Anyone wonder about that novocaine dentists use. Had it today and wondering if I'm putting myself at risk sgain? (Of course it can't be the nitrous - not giving that up!)
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i know, patoo, isn't it funny what we cant do today? it was entirely innocent on my mom's part, i know, but yeah, she could be in the slammer for sure, in these days. also my middle school math teacher, who used to taunt us regularly during class with "miss birch" his birch wood paddle, because he talked about doing it on bare bums, if we were trouble. my young life was fraught with difficulties, and i always retreated to my books and imagination, a much safer and happier place, for sure. i actually used to get in trouble for daydreaming and drawing all the time. the very high branches of a tree, where no one could find me, the BEST!! so i think breast cancer comes from an intrinsically farked-up world...
nitrous? i did lots of it, also we had found a huge cannister of helium, and talked funny over & over again for days!!! rare gases for sure wrecked my breasts. sad.
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we could be on to something! i had/have a lot of dental work - specially when i was young - was SO happy when my mom found one that used the "gas" sucked it up like my life depended on it! Damn dentists...wouldn't be surprised...
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notbuytingit - You have nailed it! It just has to be Dentists... hmmmm... Yeah, a really good possibility for sure! And another of my reasons for believing it to be an avenue of inquiry, is because I was a DentalAsst. for many, many years....ugh
See, now I'm going back to ALL THOSE bite-wings, panoramics, and any other x-rays that I took. Although the patient is covered with the 'lead shield', (a cape really; heavy as can be), and we, the Dr. and anyone else grabbed the cord, walked outside the door of the operatory, and 'snap', x-ray! So, indeed I do have some thoughts on the dental aspect!
But, still, all the poorly played instruments tend to be worth a closer examination!
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Alive4Five--I live in MO and was a dental assistant my whole working career. I've had more than one person tell me that it was all those xrays I took that caused it. Who knew??
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Well, I didn't take xrays so that's up for debate! Now, if you "offered" to lock up at night and then visited the nitrous canister you might just have a claim there!
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the first day i went for chemo, this was the topic that two other ladies and i discussed.. and all three of us realised we STOPPED exercising and ate junk!!!! I've always been active throughout childhood and early adulthood till a few years back when i suddenly stopped my daily brisk walk up and down a nearby hill.. that combined with emotional eating (carbs and loads of it + chips and chocolates).. i think it just triggered something... i'm going back to exercising after chemo finishes..
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Speaking of the dentist I wore braces for 3 years! Who knows what was in all that metal and the glue they used to adhere the brackets to my teeth, not to mention the headgear.
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patoo - yes... loads of fun...and yet, the helium was by far the best time EV ER! I know, I know, but, calling a patient and confirming their appointment with a helium voice was tear-shedding funny!!
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Hey, I wore braces too! And I am a nurse. Whenever the radiology tech came into the ICU, they would ask the nurse to hold patients still etc. while they stepped out of the room. They would give us a shield, but I always thought. I am a nurse, how bought you hold the patient and I can push your little button thingy. I didn't sign up for extra radiation!
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