Chapter 32 Epilogue 2 Aurienne’s Notes
Dear Quincey,
Quick notes for our first attempt at putting this on paper. Am in a rush so it’s even more illegible than normal. The usual apologies apply.
Case study: a novel treatment protocol for patients with advanced seith degeneration
Case history
Seith deterioration is deadly and widely considered impossible to cure (see also “Management of Seith Deterioration: Fifty Years of Clinical Outcomes” by Hwang and Saward and “ ‘Treating’ Seith Rot: Current Methodologies” by Le et al).
We describe the case of a 35-year-old male who sustained a crushing injury at the cervical spine (an imbecile hit him with a maul).
Patient’s cervical seith channels were affected by the injury and, given that Haelan intervention was not immediately sought, they began to deteriorate.
Patient first noticed fluctuations in the flow of his seith 2–3 months after the injury.
Initial imaging revealed significant degeneration throughout the patient’s seith system, stemming from the site of the original injury. Deterioration contributed to patient’s occasional difficulties summoning seith. Initial assessments also revealed advanced torpraxia.
Patient had an otherwise well-developed, robust seith system. Patient had a tācn (Order withheld for patient’s privacy).
Treatment course
In early discussions, patient was advised that there are limited treatment protocols available, including seith debridement. However, patient wished to retain seith function.
At patient’s insistence, despite a lack of published evidence, course of treatment was launched, a pursuit of “the Old Ways,” i.e.
, healing attempts at full moons, during “in-between” spaces and times, per early, unpublished research by care provider.
In practice, this translated to a full infusion of seith by a Haelan every 29 days.
Given circumstances (undisclosed for patient’s privacy), patient could not attend regular imaging sessions with care provider at Swanstone.
Care provider therefore placed seith markers throughout patient’s system to track advancement of degeneration.
Patient observed to have high pain tolerance during placement.
During course of treatment, complications in the patient’s care included two seith embolisms several months apart (removed by care provider) and penetrating abdominal trauma (incurred in protection of care provider).
Patient was given verbal reminders to not overuse seith.
Attempt 1:
Cúsc moon (March)
Observations: no change
Attempt 2:
Hara moon (April)
Observations: no change
Attempt 3:
Blaednes moon (May)
No immediate change noted, but slowdown in degeneration observed in subsequent imaging
Attempt 4:
Begbéam moon (June)
Change noted: healed node (exceptional development; no records exist of nodes lost to seith deterioration being successfully regenerated)
Attempt 5:
Hunig moon (July)
Change noted: reversed demyelination in cervical seith channels
Attempt 6:
Thunor moon (August)
Change noted: wholesale reversal of seith deterioration; no further traces of deterioration detected
Attempt 7:
Bédríp moon (September)
Change noted: Care provider fixed herself
Clinical implications subsequent imaging (NB Quincey: I will provide the images) shows no evidence of disease.
Possibility that the care provider’s seith markers assisted with healing? In some imaging, clear recession of disease around seith markers. Query: would degeneration have continued to advance in the absence of continual exposure to Haelan seith through the markers?
Possibility that the regular seith infusions are also helpful?
Examine seith “dosing” strategies suggested 29-day period is theoretical and entirely arbitrary.
Importance of time and place: unclear; suspected; further study required.
Overall, this case study suggests that long-term exposure to Haelan seith may elicit an exceptional therapeutic response, allowing for regression, and eventually resolution, of the disease.
However, further research is needed to confirm the effectiveness of treatment.
Methods undertaken in this case study not acceptable from a regulatory, ethical, or clinical standpoint.
Interdisciplinary collaboration was crucial (see acknowledgements).
Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank first and foremost the patient, whose insistence—and steadfast belief in the provider’s skill—culminated in discoveries with significant implications for treatment of seith rot and other degenerative diseases.
If it hadn’t been for his stubbornness, these advances would not have occurred.
Thanks also to Haelan Belladonna Xanthe, who played a pivotal role in initiating the project and supported the author throughout.
The author would like to acknowledge the silent contributor to this study: Professor Widdershins, formerly of Aynsworth University, Wessex.
His work on the translation of the Monafyll Stone was of immense assistance in determining place for the monthly seith infusions.
Professor Widdershins’ whereabouts are currently unknown.
Any information would be gratefully received by the author.
Quincey: please remove from final draft; Acts of Warranted Brutality decided to tip over my inkpot and have the final word.