I'm so sorry, Teppy. What terrible news.

I'm about to jump out of here and into another clinical trial; this one is a trial of a virtual reality device to deal with fear and depression surrounding cancer diagnoses. I've managed to get it up and running once. I was a swirling purple cloud in a clear night sky. It was hippy-dippy but also pretty interesting. At 12 noon the whole trial group (6 people, I think) try it together for the first time. I have no idea what to expect.

JZ, that sounds pretty cool. I hope it's helpful to you and the rest of the group, in addition to being interesting.

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trial of a virtual reality device to deal with fear and depression surrounding cancer diagnoses. I've managed to get it up and running once. I was a swirling purple cloud in a clear night sky. It was hippy-dippy but also pretty interesting.

Huh. That is interesting. Is there a sound component as well?

I hope you get it to work for you.

The heat index here is 110, and I would like to know who to complain to. (Climate change and humans, I know.)

Jacqueline further reported that she is a vaporous purple cloud with a pulsing red heart in the VR environment. And that you can touch your heart to the other clouds as a sign of support.

I'm basically imagining Lumpy Space Princess with boundary issues.

for your amusement, Dungeons and Drag Queens

My heart is white and not pulsing, and at least so far we're not caressing each other's orbs for comfort. The whole thing is heavily laced with woo, but I'll stick it out because the oncologist was so enthusiastic about it. If I do a total turnaround and start babbling about it all the time, please rescue me because in that case it's clearly a cult.

Unlike javachik, I did not actually catch up- I did a read of the past few weeks a few weeks ago and have been lurking. I tend to read and not post more now that I am doing this on a mobile device, and not at work, on my computer. I really miss the early days where Buffistas was something I could keep up with to look busy at work. Those days are long gone, I am afraid. I am completely and utterly overwhelmed, which was semi manageable on salary and not at all manageable keeping to 40ish hours. I lead a training today which went off the rails.

Teppy- I am so sorry for your SILs family.

Sheryl- That sounds so hard

JZ- I am glad you have another trial but this:

t so far we're not caressing each other's orbs for comfort.

Reminded me of college acting class where we learned to feel each other’s aura’s and then had to “fluff” them. So awkward, but also I could kind of feel it and feel the fluffing. It was sort of the same sensation as you feel when the Ouija Board planchette starts moving. So weird.

If I do a total turnaround and start babbling about it all the time, please rescue me because in that case it's clearly a cult.

JZ, I am halfway to trying to join the cult before you even start singing its praises. That sounds pretty great whether it is clinically beneficially or not. YWooMV