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.)

Linkage updated.

Since I never know how often I'll be updating links, I'm going to announce it here like it's a Really Big Event, so yeah, linkage update.  JS

People get bent out of shape when I express my perspective on things and it's different from their perspective.  I can't figure out if they find me more offensive than I find them or if I find them more offensive than they find me.  Either way, it's fucking amusing as all get out, at the very least.

Mets Monday: Get Up Swinging featured a post by Carolyn.  Yes, you should go give it a read because yes, it's that fucking awesome.

Cult of Perfect Motherhood has a post called How the Hubs Feels.  This is content that is great enough to (hopefully) get people to pay the fuck attention to what goes on regarding a cancer diagnosis.

Amazingly enough, most of my traffic on here is still coming from pinterest, but here's further exploration, just for fun.

People are coming in from Pinterest, fakebook, google--just exactly what people are googling to get results which include my page, I have no idea of why that is, Ravelry, and a few other sites that I'm not sure exactly who or what they are.

And here's a list of my top views by country, so you can see I'm internationally read.

United States, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, Poland, Germany, and Belgium.

Apparently, I am also internationally re-twitted with my food porn images.  This makes me a happy little camper.  What doesn't make me a happy little camper and does piss me off in an angrivated way is getting a twit follower who messages me and whines about the F bombs I drop on occasion.  If you don't like what I say or how I say it, don't fucking read what I fucking post!  What a waste of that person's time typing and sending that to me and a waste of my time fucking reading it.  FUCKETY FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.  JS  (See what I did there?  That was clever, wasn't it?  Am I helpful, or what?)

So yeah, linkage updated.  

I've decided that I'm going to be utilizing this blog as an outlet/base for exploring further resources related to DES (diethylstilbestrol) and the information about it being related to breast cancer, since that's what I was diagnosed with.  Stay tuned for further bitching about this, because it's very likely this is why I was diagnosed with (HER2+) breast cancer in 2011.  Yes, I knew about the increased risk of CCA (clear cell adenocarcinoma), however I didn't make a connection in the Swiss cheese that is my brain now that perhaps I should explore this potential connection further until recently.