#51 - What are Cold Caps and Do They Actually Work? | Interview with Caitlin Edmonds

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We discuss cold caps as a tool for perserving your hair during chemotherapy. Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=23671754

Summary: Caitlyn Edmonds discusses her experience with chemotherapy and radiation along with the use of cold caps during her cancer treatment. She also talks about how she has stayed involved in the cancer community post-cancer treatment. She discusses all of the support that she received during her treatment and the steps she took to keep her hair during her treatment.

Topics:
2:20 Introduction to cold caps
11:39 Caitlyn’s story of chemo and radiation
15:03 Caitlyn’s experience with cold caps
22:32 Caitlyn’s skin during chemo and radiation
24:29 Post treatment care

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Quotes:
21:31 Caitlyn: “So you get cancer and like basically, it's like a glass shattered inside of you. And there's like, all these shards everywhere. And he's like, so You had chemo which is what you do first, right? Like you get a towel and you like pick up all those like huge chunks and like everything out. So that's all gone. And then you had surgery, which was like getting the broom and like sweeping it all and you're like, Okay, great. Like, it looks like totally clear. Nothing's there. And he's like, but a couple weeks later, you're walking around and there's like those teeny tiny little like things that still get you and he's like, you should have gone around with dustbuster. And like all those little last pieces, he's like, that's my job. Like, I'm the dustbuster and I'm getting everything that like everyone else can't see.”

28:00 Laura: "I think that's a normal feeling even, like, this day, like some days, I don't think about cancer at all other days, I think about it way too much. And you know what I was walking into work the other day and was just like, I'm healthy. Like, when was the last time I was like, healthy? You know? And it's like, almost surreal, because you're so used to being like the patient and managing cancer."

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