House moved and

Currently dog-sitting for T Sparkle Snickerdoodle Dog.  So far, the cats are not impressed.  He'd go up to them and be nose to nose with them and they wouldn't do anything, but when I put him in his crate in the laundry room, so I could post this, they got bent out of shape and their fur was sticking up and they got all pouty.  You can follow me on the twit machine for images of #childrenofthefur, if you're interested.  And yes, that includes T Sparkle Snickerdoodle Dog while he's visiting this week.

Moving went quite well, all things considered, and am now attempting to unpack.  It seems like the more I unpack, the more I'm behind on laundry and cooking.  The more I try to catch up on laundry and cooking, the more behind I get on unpacking.

Wait.  I have a new washer and dryer which I've named Boba and Fett.  Boba washes a ginormous load of laundry in fifteen minutes.  Fett dries same washed ginormous load of laundry in fifteen minutes.  I guess I'm not really behind on laundry any longer, as much as it is I'm behind on folding and putting away.  And unpacking, of course.  

The house is beautiful, I'd love to give a huge shout out to the lovely lady who got us into this lovely custom built house, Dustina.  That's a link to her newly current neck of the woods and those look like lovely homes, also, but I do like mine!  

I think it's safe to say

I finally have a direction in which to point the finger of blame over the cancer diagnosis.  My mother was given a drug when she was pregnant with me that was/is a synthetic estrogen and endocrine disruptor.  It caused/can cause clear cell adenocarcinoma, along with other various types of cancer.

DES.  Diethylstilbestrol.

Does cancer start in the womb?  Breast cancer risk at age 40 and older is two and a half times higher in DES exposed women than women who were not exposed who are the same age.

Maternal DES exposure during pregnancy causes an increased risk to both the mother and their DES exposed daughters.   (Given the fact that males can also get (male) breast cancer, I have to wonder, how many of them were DES exposed in utero?)

DES and Bisphenol A are estrogen-like endocrine disruptors.  Exposure in utero alters a tissue expression of something called EZH2, which is associated with tumorigenesis.

Invasive in ductal HER2+ breast cancer is what I had.  In this information, numbers are broken down to give more insight into exposed versus unexposed numbers.

Mayo Clinic led team identifies Master Switch for cancer causing HER2 protein.  A mutant protein would be used for this.  Of course, I find this of particular interest since I had HER2+ breast cancer.

Just wanted to share that with you readers out there in case someone was needing some further research information while I work on packing for The Big Move.

(And if you're so inclined, please go check out the Bressante Kickstarter page.  It's a very worthy project to help women like me acquire custom made foobs (fake breast prostethics) to wear.  After the crap those of us breast cancer people go through, we should have these available to us, so this is a great invention that I'm hoping will gain some much deserved and much needed attention.  Thank you.)