Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 370 Endocrine Osteoporosis

After a simple and effective communication, with Field explaining the whole story and the middle-aged man Benny adding the details in the second half, Kraft finally roughly understood the cause and effect of the matter.

"You mean, Dominic went crazy after reading some nonsense books, and inexplicably ran to a mountain he had never been to or heard of, looking for something that even the locals didn't know what it was."

Based on the knowledge brought by souls from other worlds, a saint in ancient times summarized this phenomenon a long time ago: If you study without thinking, you will become confused; if you think without studying, you will encounter danger.

If you learn miscellaneous things and still think blindly, you will easily combine the shortcomings of both and unknowingly get yourself into a dangerous situation, which will not be far from death.

The two hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded. This description was a little too brief, but it was indeed irrefutable.

"Then when you tried to use coercive measures to control him, the madness was transmitted to this...young brother."

I wanted to call him "child", but the roughness brought by life in the mountains blurred his age, so I had to awkwardly change the name.

Kraft's eyes wandered between the patient and his family. His doctor's intuition told him that there was still information that was difficult to express that had not been fully conveyed, resulting in a lack of logic in the overall situation.

Either the other party does not realize the importance of those details, or it is a secret that they are too embarrassed to talk about, or the reasons are so bizarre that they seem absurd and unbelievable to the listener.

"Thank you, my friend, for your help. May God be a witness to this kindness and courage."

He moved away from the back of his chair, bent forward slightly, and in a posture somewhere between a friendly conversation and a confession, he narrowed the distance between himself and the middle-aged man.

"But the Father's Spirit has made known to me that there is still something in your heart that you have not said. You must understand that the light of the Lord is everywhere, but it only shines into the heart that is willing to open it. If you cannot speak frankly, I cannot help you.

“Please rest assured and cast the burdens in your heart to Him. Regardless of whether the content is absurd or blasphemous, I am only the Heavenly Father’s ears and the helping hand, not the judge of right and wrong.”

Kup, who was standing by, rubbed his eyes vigorously. For a moment, he imagined the person in front of him to be the earnestly admonishing Brother Raymond.

It turns out that there is nothing that Kraft cannot do if there is a need. His unfamiliarity with missionary work is purely a matter of attitude, plus he just doesn't want to do it because he has someone else to share the work with.

Of course, he tactfully chose to keep his mouth shut and act like a nodding machine to cooperate with the performance.

Benny was indeed moved by the sincere and earnest persuasion, or perhaps it was some kind of persuasive influence beyond language, and he vaguely revealed some local folk rumors that were not suitable to be discussed publicly in a church setting.

These remarks, which would be considered nonsense by any normal person, fill in the gaps in the previous narrative logic.

Even Kupp could find some suspicious fragments that matched his past experience.

"Yes, that's not surprising." Kraft held the pair of hands with thick sword calluses, "Thank you for your trust. This is a great help."

"But I still have some doubts. It may sound strange. Does anyone know what they are thinking or feeling after they go crazy?"

"My father tried to communicate with them and may know something, but not much. He never mentioned it on his own initiative and we never explored it." Benny's cautious avoidance of this always makes people unconsciously ignore the fact that he comes from a family of devout believers.

It makes sense, after all, God's protection is too far away, and the threat passed down by word of mouth has been here for countless years and is deeply rooted in the collective memory.

Seeing that Kraft didn't care, he dissuaded him, "I don't recommend you to delve into this matter. Even a servant who is most favored by the Father doesn't need to wade into such a dangerous shoal."

"Thank you for your kindness. I roughly understand it." Kraft was almost certain that Dominic's experience was similar to his own that night. They both encountered some rather tricky, intangible and strange things.

It seems to be relying on some existence, but cannot find a fixed material basis. It is even more illusory than a spiritual body, with no traceable outline or boundaries.

Correspondingly, according to experience, abnormal effects without material contact are usually mainly limited to the mental level and can be easily recovered after leaving the specific environment.

But from Dominic's performance, it was obviously not that simple. "Let me see the patient."

Seeing Kraft stand up again and stand beside the patient's bed, Field secretly breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slightly to Benny, indicating that the latter should wait patiently.

Since the patient was still being treated by a doctor rather than a priest, it meant that there was still room for recovery.

What is incomprehensible is that Kupp, who had been accompanying them, not only did not follow and watch, but unconsciously distanced himself, as if he was squeezed away by something that suddenly appeared. He staggered back two steps and barely managed to steady himself.

Before I could think about it, Kraft's surprised sound diverted my attention.

The first part examined was not the head or the multiple fractured fingers, but Dominic's lower limbs.

Kraft held one leg and lifted it repeatedly in a manner that made one's back chill, as if a connoisseur had discovered a lost masterpiece.

"Did you find anything?"

"Does Dominic like to have things named after him?" Kraft asked rhetorically.

"I'm sorry, he didn't mention it, but is this related to his condition?"

"It's very relevant. If he likes it, it will be named Dornier's empty bone syndrome. If he doesn't like it, we can only settle for the next best thing and name it after the place name, Prieure syndrome."

As some of the largest long bones in the body, the lower limbs reflect typical bone changes very well - they are almost hollowed out.

The thin bone cortex and sparse trabeculae are like a tree trunk inhabited by termites, and the internal structure is almost completely dissolved. But this is not the end. It can be found that in the empty bone marrow cavity, loose and regularly arranged trabeculae are being generated, gradually replacing the old bone.

"You carried him all the way, didn't you notice that the weight was wrong?"

Bones in the remodeling stage are particularly light and fragile, which explains the multiple phalangeal fractures in both hands.

So the question is, what small changes in the body can cause drastic changes in the bones throughout the body.

His spiritual senses swept across his head, and a swelling about the size of a knuckle, four fingers deep from the center of his eyebrows, caught his attention.

This thing, which was originally only the size of a soybean, grew several times in size in a short period of time, and even compressed the sella sphenoid bone, causing slight deformity.

Although it is not enough to cause increased intracranial pressure by itself, its location in the midbrain at the skull base causes it to block the cerebrospinal fluid circulation channel, and the ventricles are like a pool with a blocked outlet that is becoming increasingly full.

Pituitary tumor

The primary lesion is indeed small, but unfortunately it is in the endocrine regulatory center.

Even though we were mentally prepared, the actual situation was still much worse than expected.

To solve this problem, the surgeon must start from the nasal cavity or maxilla and go straight to the sella turcica in the skull. This requires a multidisciplinary consultation team composed of senior neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, and otolaryngologists, extremely sophisticated endoscopic minimally invasive surgical instruments, and strict monitoring and evaluation throughout the process.

Now, the only people here are a witch doctor who has just learned how to pry open skulls and his carpenter's chisel.

Rather than thinking about the surgical approach, it might be more practical to think about the funeral process and eulogy.

A difficult month_:(□`」∠):_
The author finally completed the defense and final examination