Hopefully, she is kidding. I do not know how many of my colleagues who contribute to this site, share my opinion, but I am constantly amazed at the crazy things people do to themselves and others in the name of "beauty"
If this is true, this is totally unsafe, and illegal in so many ways the State Board of Nursing should throw the book at this Nurse. She should be reported post haste.
Procedures like this should be performed only under sterile conditions, not in a home. True, xenografts such as this might take, porcine grafts etc., but only on special material. There is the obvious risk of infection from all sorts of weird bacteria to which the animal may play host.
Actually, the more I answer this, the more I think this is all a joke, kinda like the article in today's ( August 24, 2010) Annals of Internal Medicine on health care reform.
Incidentally, does your friend occasionally let out a whinny, moo, or oink when she talks after the procedure?