Let's conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer

anniebford

It was the unorganic (or should I say non-organic?) gigantic sized chocolate rabbit that I gnawed on for three days straight after I got it in my Easter basket. I ate one of those things every year for all of my childhood- and more than a few adulthood years:)

Anonymous

Yep annieford - that's what did it to you!!!  Although I only got the hollow ones and still got BC - so, ladies, sorry to tell you this but it's the chocolate!!!!!!  Ever seen a chocolate rabbit made out of the dark chocolate - nope!  Dark chocolate is good for you but, no, they had to go and make them out of the milk chocolate.  I say we get together a lawsuit and make them sorry!

Leah_S

Uh oh. If it's the milk chocolate I'm in BIG trouble.

Even more trouble than for all those years of cheering "Let's Go Mets!"

Leah

apple

seriously?

now that I have a brother who has been treated for leukemia, a brother who now has advanced leukemia and lymphoma and a sister with a tennis ball sized tumor in her liver (please let it be benign),  I'm thinkin it was the chlordane that dad used to spray around the house while we were eating lunchmeat and cheese curls.

Leah_S

Could be, Apple. Praying for the health of your family.

Of course, NOTseriously we can blame the cheese curls.

Leah

Mandy1313

My sister and I are the total breast cancer history for our family---not mothers, grandmothers, grandmothers twin sister, etc.  So what was different?  Alot.  We were actually sprayed with DDT during the summer to prevent polio (yes, I am so old that I was born before the Salk vaccine; in fact I was in trials for it when it did come out).    Plus there were crop dusters near where I grew up. We thought the bug sprays were great and did not avoid them but ran right to them.....yikes....There were no pesticides when my grandmothers grew up.  Their food came from their garden; mine came from a box.   The other part is probably some random thing that we aren't thinking of that gave it to my sister and i---maybe having a crush on a certain boy in 2nd grade and playing with his electric trains; maybe watching TV;   maybe eating licorice (my grandmother always said not to eat it),,,,,,.....

Sorry if I repeated what others have said...but this is a wonderful thread.  

Susie123

Well Ladies, according to what I just saw on Fox News tonight, I guess I've just ate too much!

Anonymous

Mandy, I think you touched on it.  Electric trains - it was the smoke from the engine.  What was in there that made smoke come out of toy trains!!!

Sorry Susie123, eating caused us to get fat, contributing to BC.  Yes, some of you don't 'look' fat but I bet those little buggers are in there and BC just came out first.  BC just causes us to get fatter from the AI's.

Serious note:  Apple, hoping for better news on your family.  That's a lot for one family to deal with.

perky

I was told that I have had this cancer for about 8 years. What was 8 years ago? 9/11!

Breast cancer is caused by terrorism!

carpediemocc

I ate a lot of that Elmers School Paste back in 2nd & 3rd grade. More recently I was addicted to those banana flavored slurpees. Or maybe it's the Starbucks! Ever notice how breast cancer has seemed to increase since the invent of Starbucks?! Coincidence? I don't think so......

Anonymous

Agree Carpe - and I bet they're in cahoots with Dunkin Donuts too. 

Mouse6

gsg...thanks for starting this. I'm LMAO over here! Needed a good laugh today.

The more I read, the more absurd I feel about trying to figure out exactly what went wrong with me. I'm 33, no family history, BRCA-, don't smoke, don't drink, slim, eat my veggies. What gives? I  guess we'll never know, but it's funny how there could be a million different explanations.

Must have been the "mud and grass soup" my brother and I ate out of a bucket in the sandbox when I was 8!

Leah_S

Well, you'll all be relieved to know that it has nothing to do with spelling.

A friend of mine who had bc told me she failed spelling in the 6th grade. Well, I was the 6th grade spelling champ.

Doesn't that ease your mind?

Leah

dcarpenter

hair dye and being a little bit fat

Anonymous

big, gaudy, cheap earrings that you wore even though your ears hurt and filled with pus because you were allergic - trying to be cute!

Mouse6

...or wearing clothes that were very inappropriate for the weather because you were trying to be cute!

pj12

I think it was playing in the toxic cloud from the mosquito fogging truck. Better DDT than mosquitoes!

mumito

Patoo that was me too with the ugly earings.LOL

lbmt

how about those smelling birthday tablecloths they use to use.

NatureGrrl

This is the funniest thread I've seen in a long time, and is the perfect example of why I love y'all!  Thank you!! 

Anonymous

Okay, they started putting out the smelly fertilizer.  I bet smelling that is what gave me BC and now they are trying to make it come back!!!

Or, as I said somewhere way back on here, it's probably the houseplants sending out vibes because I forget to water them.  Yeah, one of those spikes is pointing right at my "good" breast!

Going for water - night all.

bettysgirl

Patoo- im on board with the cheap earrings..and the inappropiate clothing thingy....never had a houseplant...im reverting back to my ealrier theory that i am a right side sleeper and that was the side my bc was on...I don't know if i will ever sleep as good as i once did without that boobie cushion to sleep on...maybe that breast was compromised by the lack of air during those hot summer nights...all the summer humidity just helped the BC cells just sink right on in!!

Stanzie

My Mom smoked all the time so wasn't ever interested in food so we got lots of TV dinners and Dinty Moore Beef Stew - from a can, ick. She said she also fed me Tongue as a small child - no wonder I'm so picky now about the meats I do eat.

 I still vote the raw cookie dough, any marshmellows - I won a contest to see who could put the most mini-marshmellows in their mouth - 96! But then I had to swallow. 

My sister made me eat a bar of Dial soap once. The same sister who blames me for ruining her life cause I was born so perhaps she did it as she is healthy as a horse. Also in France at a lovely resturant they wouldn't tell us what it was till we tasted it - lambs testicals - so eating odd foods? 

Or those frozen ice pops, those wonderful Ideal cookies, or jumping on trampolines

kcshreve

I'd go with cafeteria food anyday.  I still think it's a hazard, just looking back at what we ate....half the time not knowing what was really in there.

bettysgirl

i can't blame it on the cafeteria food we had in elementary school...i wish i could eat that good again...homemade yeast rolls, gingerbread with lemon sauce and so much more BUT middle school and  high school YEP!!!!!!!! It was the MYSTERY MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gale1525

Running behind the mosquitoes truck in the fumes? Think that could cause it?

Anonymous

We didn't have mosquitoes trucks in the city where I grew up so it wasn't that.  I still say it's housework.  We all had to do chores, right?  Then continued to do housework when we went out on our own.  Bet if you survey the men who have gotten BC that they did housework from their youth and their wives found out and made them continue doing it.

Leah_S

I agree, Patoo. Definitely the housework.

So now I have to worry about my sons as well as my daughters.

Sigh.

Leah

Anonymous

Tell your sons to send money and I'll give them some more excuses to get out of housework.  (but I don't sell out cheaply!)

Leah_S

They'd probably take you up on the order, but one son is 32 so he's on his own and the other is 18 ande going into the army in a couple of months. Not sure if he'd prefer the housework.

Leah