I was a healer long enough to know when something can't be fixed.

[it's the way of things, sometimes, much as he hates it. maybe he thought once that anything could be healed; he's been proven wrong, since.]

As for the corruption, suppose I could always suffuse myself with another form of magic, but that's just a different type of change.

...what does your condition encompass, if you don't mind my asking? I can make a guess or two [you know, rock stuff], but.