Can you lie to yourself that the woo-woo Nurse is a performance artist? Or a very sophisticated stand-up comedian? Cause if you could convince yourself of that, she would be a lot easier to bear. How good are your deliberate self-deception skills...?

I just have to share: I normally feel like lesbians are weird and incestuous and spend too much time with their exes. It's all stereotypically true. I don't feel like I'm too bad about it. Today I was commenting on something on Facebook and realized the person I was commenting on, I know her because she is my ex- girlfriend's brother's wife's sister. Um.

The woo woo is nuts, but at least this treatment is better than the roulette of the ER, right?

ergo quod erat demonstrandum flobotinum

May I tag this? It's lovely.

I was wondering how stem cells could be a hobby, and apparently the answer is "by having a stem cell machine at home." Okay. Clears things up.

Ooooh, she's one of the Tleilaxu! Except didn't the axlotl tanks just turn out to be genetically modified women? So maybe she just means her uterus.

I think this is the cancer light treatment (from the ACS so about as non-woo-y as you can get):

Photodynamic therapy or PDT is a treatment that uses special drugs, called photosensitizing agents, along with light to kill cancer cells. The drugs only work after they have been activated or “turned on” by certain kinds of light. PDT may also be called photoradiation therapy, phototherapy, or photochemotherapy.

Depending on the part of the body being treated, the photosensitizing agent is either put into the bloodstream through a vein or put on the skin. Over a certain amount of time the drug is absorbed by the cancer cells. Then light is applied to the area to be treated. The light causes the drug to react with oxygen, which forms a chemical that kills the cancer cells. PDT may also work by destroying the blood vessels that feed the cancer cells and by alerting the immune system to attack the cancer.

Jessica, if I clicked on that link and saw my nurse's name, I'd laugh until next week. But I have no fear whatsoever that she's involved in new medical work with actual science in it--she's made it clear she's moving past that phase of her life--I'm honoured to be here with her at the birth of her new whatever the fuckety fuck.

And, tag away.

at least this treatment is better than the roulette of the ER, right?

Absolutely--like Typo suggests, it's a mental game. What her hands do? Is totally fine. Her mouth is increasingly insane, but the complication is needing to deflect her ideas for what I should be doing to heal myself. She leaves me with healing light (because God is light and we are all made up of the same thing as starlight quantum physics) exercises and phone numbers of people who will massage my chakras, and one of the few things she seems to remember from one visit to the next is to ask if I've followed up on her last suggestion.

That's it, Jessica. Thanks.

I'd bet good money that the nurse's woo is the reason she's a visiting nurse rather than employed in a facility.

I zapped the heat pack up and Devi is immensely grateful and perched upon it.

At least the only time someone had me chanting "I am light and energy" it was a bs work thing, not healthcare.

maybe your nurse was inspired by Spock saying "pure energy" in TOS. That led to a fantastic song by the Information Society and may have also affected your nurse too.