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v-ness · 11-17-2009, 01:41 PM

i grew up in a small farming town in western massachusetts and all of us high school kids worked either tobacco or cucumbers during the summer (back when kids actually worked and got outdoors). this was in the mid-70's. we were not only exposed pesticides, i also recall trucks driving through town belching mosquito killing spray in the evenings because it's real buggy here in the Happy Valley close to the Connecticut River. i only had 40 classmates in high school and recently found out that 3 of my female classmates had or have breast cancer, another one died of BC, and at least one of the boys died of cancer of some sort.

i remember riding my bicycle down the street and the mosquito spray truck passing me by, never even turning off the big poison sprayers. no wonder mosquitos still don't bite me to this day.

11-17-2009, 01:41 PM	#10
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Sad day... i grew up in a small farming town in western massachusetts and all of us high school kids worked either tobacco or cucumbers during the summer (back when kids actually worked and got outdoors). this was in the mid-70's. we were not only exposed pesticides, i also recall trucks driving through town belching mosquito killing spray in the evenings because it's real buggy here in the Happy Valley close to the Connecticut River. i only had 40 classmates in high school and recently found out that 3 of my female classmates had or have breast cancer, another one died of BC, and at least one of the boys died of cancer of some sort. i remember riding my bicycle down the street and the mosquito spray truck passing me by, never even turning off the big poison sprayers. no wonder mosquitos still don't bite me to this day. __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!