Healers a Hyllis family story #3 by Laurence E Dahners

Author:Laurence E Dahners
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: post apocalyptic, teleportation, healer, telekinetics
Publisher: Laurence E Dahners

When they reached Daussie in the wagon, she was carefully searching through their medical books. “What’re you looking for?” Eva asked.

“The nerve to the lung. If Tarc could block it, Paul wouldn’t cough when he pushed the fluids out into the bronchi.”

Eva frowned, “But Paul’s got to cough. The coughing helps move the fluids up and out of the lung. Certainly he needs to cough them up and out of his throat and mouth.”

“Tarc can push them up and out! And I’ll bet it’d be easier if everything wasn’t jerking around because Paul was coughing.”

Eva turned her gaze on Tarc, “Do you think that’s true?”

Tarc nodded, “Yeah, squeezing lung isn’t all that difficult but it’s a little harder pushing the fluids along in the bronchi when they’re jumping all around.”

Eva said, “Okay, I think I know where to look.”

A few minutes later, they were all tracing the course of their own vagus nerves with their ghosts. Eventually they found the branches that mostly fed the lungs. Tarc said, “I guess I can cool that main branch down and we can see what happens. I think I shouldn’t try to squeeze out a really big area of the lung until we see what happens with the nerve blocked.”

They all trooped back over to Paul. “We think we’ve figured out a way to do this without you feeling like you have to cough quite so much,” Eva said. “But we might need you to cough on purpose at some point to push out some of the fluid. We’ll tell you to cough if that happens, okay?”

Paul nodded. Tarc had already found and started cooling the pulmonary branch of Paul’s vagus nerve. Moments after Paul gave them the nod, they rolled him up onto his right side and Tarc started squeezing a section of his left upper lobe. Fluids flowed out of the lung tissue and into the bronchi. Tarc started pushing the fluids along while Daussie fluttered her hands over Paul’s ribs and transported dollops of the fluid away.

Just when Eva was thinking she was going to have to ask Paul to cough the fluids out, they reached areas in his throat that weren’t numb because Tarc’s nerve block hadn’t covered those areas. Paul coughed a few times, bringing up large quantities of sputum, but the coughing episodes didn’t seem as paroxysmal and painful as they had been before.

Tarc set to work pulling that section of upper lobe back open so it would fill with air. Paul sounded hopeful as he rasped, “Oh, that wasn’t as bad even though it felt to me like I coughed out just as much stuff. Is that right?”

Eva said, “Uh-huh, you up to having another treatment?”

“Um, sure, if it’s not any worse than that one.”

This next time, they tilted the litter head down, put Paul on his left side leaned over towards his face and Tarc squeezed out half of Paul’s left upper lobe. The volume of material Paul produced almost made it look like he was throwing up.

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