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Hello, everyone. This is Karen Nicol, family nursey, and bitchy!

Hello, everyone. This is Karen Nicol, family nurse practitioner, and this is Itchy and Bitchie,

a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions.

This is a little reminder about my course called the Perimenopause Answer.

If you are going through the phase of life called paraminopause,

I would love to have the opportunity to talk to you about the course to see if it's the right fit for you. There is a link on our website, itchy and bitchy.com and our Facebook page,

I and B podcast, where you can schedule an appointment for a Zoom call with me. This is a Zoom

call with me. When you make an

appointment, I will be sitting at my desk waiting for you to join the one-on-one Zoom call. I had

lunch with a friend who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Some of her pathology results were

conflicting, so she was originally told that she would need double chemotherapy

regimen that is notorious for complete loss of scalp hair. Of course, this is a very overwhelming

and upsetting thing to face. Even though information was coming at her a mile a minute,

she was able to research and make plans for a treatment called scalp cooling, otherwise known as cold capping, to help prevent hair loss during chemotherapy.

She found someone who provides the scalp cooling and had it all set up to start when her chemotherapy was initiated.

I'll share details about scalp cooling in a minute. In the last episode, I talked about being your own advocate when it comes to

your health care. Again, as my friend was still reeling from the diagnosis, from learning that

chemotherapy was recommended, and from all

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