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

corky60

Melissa, I recently tried substituting half of the water in pie crust with vodka.  It really helps to make the dough silky and easy to work with.  And of course chill everything, even the bowl and flour prior to working with it.  Pie crusts are definitely a challenge!

MelissaDallas

Hi Corky. I've seen that in the ATK recipe. Honestly, I don't think it's the recipe. I've tried lots of people's tried & trues. I despise making rolled out cookies too. I can bake & decorate a wedding cake. I can make perfect French Macaroons, which are notoriously difficult. I think it is mental & me.

GmaFoley

One lady at church went on a rant about soy protein being the best for me "After Cancer"  Uh I'm 100% ER/PR+  Not sure about that, in fact, I think it was all the South Beach diet bars I ate that gave it to me.

keepthefaith

I blame it on my 'ex'  and all of the stress he caused me...but, seriously! He took the blame for everything else, so might as well give this to him, too!

Tomboy

....hidden resentments. no wonder i had it so bad! i can bite my lip for a long time, but not forever.

FireKracker

good one..always blame the X husband

Mine was a good man till he met madam X...off he went leaving in my friends house with my 4 kids and her 3.in a 3bedroom house..10 ppl.

No wonder my hair turned gray over nite

Yeah u hit the nail on the head.

Anonymous

Swedish fish!  Bags of it at a time.  Yeah, add that to one of my culprits.  Oh well.

Hmmmm, think I'm missing the SuperBowl.   Maybe that's it - I can't get into football so not getting anti-cancer rays from it.  Going to turn it on right now.  Nighty-night!.

Tomboy

maybe if i didnt ask too many questions, i wouldnt have gotten this. if only i would behave myself.

Tomboy

maybe it was all the complainin'

Anonymous

No, it's housework, housework I tell ya!  Those dustballs get up my nose and goes right down my throat and landed in my right breast (left one was quicker to close itself off to intruders!)

Tomboy

all that dishwater, right through my skin?

RMlulu

No, those yellow Peeps ...chicks...bunnies...just not natural...but oh so tasty )) Spring Fever hip hop

Tomboy

mmmm. lately, i have to wonder. the only form of sugar i really have is these gummy things, from trader joes. they are mango/passionfruit, and i am hoping they work as good as femara! and before chemo, i never ate a gummy.

Anonymous

Sittin' here at my desk and looking over at the plants on a shelf 3 feet from my head.  I know they are dusty and want to be cleaned but if I do that those dustbunnies will attack so, NO, I'm not dusting them.  So, take that!

Leah_S

Patoo, you just sit there and leave that evil dust alone. Your health comes first! 

Really, I don't understand why people are proposing other causes of BC when you have done the definitive study and given us THE ANSWER.

Leah

Anonymous

Leah, check's in the mail.

Tomboy

Whew! i WAS gonna vacumn, but i think i will spend time in the garden, instead! close call!

mz_mes

Stress especially in the last 6 years -- my 8 year old son died in June 2011 after a 17 month battle with cancer in brainstem known as DIPG.  He was DX at age 6 and given 3 mos to live with no cure and no known treatments.  Only pallative care -- radiation but it always grows back. He fought hard had 2 rounds of radition, lots of investigational drugs via clinical trials and had 2 honeymoons before DIPG killed him.    The years of cancer treatments and radiation/x-rays/CT scans  (I would prefer to stay with him and only left when they made me) and fighting insurance and the years since of grieving have been very stressful.    Now there is the guilt that my cancer is operable and treatable and my dear sweet little son's was not.  So definitely stress.     

Then there was the fact that I became a mother after age 30, 1st I was 33, 2nd I was 39 and 3rd I was 43.   I adopted again just last year at age 52  (he's 11).    Then before this I took the birth control pills in my twenties and then there were drinking binges and cigarettes in HS and college.   I quit smoking and moderated drinking as a young adult.

But if you believe the stupid Anesthesiogist who introduced himself to me just before they wheeled me in for lumpectomy/SNB  drinking is why -- he asked me so "do you drink?"  I said "yes" and then he asked how much and I said "1 or 2" and he shakes his head and says "A Day?"  I was going to say a month!!!!   Stupid jerk.   Nevermind that since this BC DX I'm scared to drink!

Really I think it is the combination of everything that we do to ourselves and all the things which happen to us along the way together with our genetic makeup that make us lucky or unlucky. 

Tomboy

...um, wow, mz mes. welcome to bco, i see that that is your first post. i am truly sorry for your loss of your son, and attendant grief. that has got to be one of the worst things ever.

Good for you for finding bco so early in your treatments. my respect and love for it has grown tremendously since i first found it. there are some great and wonderful and knowledgeable women to be found here, and i hope you stick around.

..this thread is actually one that kind of makes/has fun with what we 'make up' what we think could be the cause of our disease. because sometimes you just need to laugh at it!  

but i dont think i laughed, certainly not in the beginning. there are all kinds of threads, and i do hope you do explore them, learn, make some friends, and keep coming back. bco is a great place, if you find yourself here. 

good for you for catching it early.

wrenn

mine was caused by giving up.  I had focused all of my energy on my daughter after my son died and 2 years ago it became apparent that she was doing fine (engaged to a great guy, very busy in a career she loved) and didn't need mothering like she had.  I felt 'done' and my body responded by not working as hard to keep things in check.  Since the dx i have been working on developing a new purpose and am hopefeul it is not too late.

Tomboy

wrenn, glad you are here! mine was caused by being snippy.

Tomboy

....breast surgeon said so!

JAN69

Mine was caused because I'm passive aggressive (said from behind the couch).  Learned behavior from mother, reinforced by husband.  Yikes!  Did I just say that?!  Jan

Jelson

I was looking for a desk chair and found one that came in black or discounted - pink for breast cancer. I didn't want pink, though I wanted the discount, what a dilemma and then I figured if I don't get the chair I will get breast cancer, so I got the chair and got breast cancer. So, if I had paid full price for the chair in black, would I have gotten breast cancer?? regardless, it is a great chair and I am sitting on it as I type.

Tomboy

hahahahahahahahahhahahahah!

RMlulu

mz...mess - so sorry for your loss...ugh c:(((. Understand lost ds 6 yrs ago, DH has been battling c for 4 yrs multiple surgeries/tx...and now me....stress yes

Passive aggressive...hum...snarky snippy mumbling ...hummm moms do teach that...that mothers curse

Pink chair...hummm? Pink is my fav color until BC ....yes it's still my fav, but I don't wear it because of BC...and I sure don't sit on it...but I love a good rt bargin:)

I took my dh's leaf blower to all the peeps dust bunnies so the house is good...blew them out if here...

Still think Barbie, didn't mean to cut off all her hair, & red hots...but never chocolate Easter candies...way to good a fix...

Geezzz, being vegan...fingers&toes crossed...FitBit says time to move ....

mz_mes

Thanks!  The community threads are informative and supportive.  I gathered the thread was tongue in cheek since we do not know what causes BC.   It's been awhile since I've felt carefree since adding cancer mom, then bereaved parent to my list of qualification and now BC patient. My husband has always said that I don't have a sense of humor (this because I do not laugh at his jokes).  I blame stress for my BC and over-exposure to cancer to giving me cancer!

Tomboy

....very well said, mz mes! i think i had too much exposure to other peoples cancer too! maybe cancer IS contagious... i could tell you stories.

Anonymous

Hmmmm, yes - pink chair.  They say you get what you pay for!  You may want to think about; nah, never mind, you don't want to sell or give it to another unsuspecting lady. Anyway, since it's already done it's job and passed the cell on to you it's probably all out of them so may as well keep it!

I had 2 aunts pass from colon cancer (long time ago) but since we all got together frequently at family affairs maybe I caught the colon cancer cells and they morphed over time into BC?  Never know!

FireKracker

so there u r Kath

Been wondering where u were 

IMHO it's who pulled the short straw