keeping trans: unless I'm mistaken, someone suggessted renaming the skill to Healing, to better reflect the changes brought about by blood worms, and perhaps other changes I don't know about.
blood worms: I love these things! They showed up when the marsh (crocs) flooded. They're like leeches. They latch onto you, and if you don't remove them you could find yourself in serious danger. But when you do remove them, you'll learn something. Quite a few empaths have found blood worm research to be very rewarding. A few may have even given up medical practice altogether in favor of medical research. It's not uncommon to find empaths in the marsh, or resting by the reeds. Ask around and I'm sure one of them will be happy to tell you all the details about the little wormies.