E085 Personal Publication Boundary

E085 Personal Publication Boundary

This record separates material used to build the internal drafts from material approved for public release. Nothing in this note grants publication authority.

Safe editorial frame

The public package can say that Dalton moved to New York, became seriously ill soon afterward, required hospital care, lost substantial capacity, stepped away from work for several weeks, and rebuilt ordinary life gradually. It can describe home changes, friendship, movement, work, sport, and local participation at a general level.

Each of those details still requires Dalton's line-level approval because their combination creates a personal health narrative.

Details removed from public drafts

The drafts omit the precise neighborhood, running routes, park, employer, conference venue, workplace connection, named friends, photographs of third parties, hospital records, apartment layout clues, exact body measurements, and exact workout history.

They also omit the transcript's unverified diagnosis, causal explanation, recurrence estimate, self-directed rehabilitation description, castor-oil claims, and implied exercise prescription.

Claims that require correction or qualification

The transcript is a first-person recollection, not a medical record. A public page must not say that negative COVID tests prove another cause, that a virus definitively damaged a particular nerve, that a specific percentage of cases become permanent, or that every patient should repeat symptom-provoking exercises without supervision.

The public pages may say that Dalton understood the illness in a particular way at the time, but the current drafts mostly avoid those disputed details because they are not necessary to the story.

Author decisions required

Dalton needs to approve whether hospitalization, the amount of weight lost, the length of work leave, diminished enjoyment, hair shedding, and the intensity of the eventual return belong in the public account.

The current drafts mention hospitalization and several weeks away from work. They do not publish the amount of weight lost, hair shedding, or the later endurance distances. They paraphrase the emotional flatness without diagnosing it.

Dalton also needs to decide whether the episode title's phrase "catabolic state" should remain in the public title. The draft preserves it as the original episode language and explains that it is not a clinical diagnosis.

Release gate

The Episode Story and both personal essays require line-level author approval. The re-entry guide requires qualified medical-safety review. Every page remains publication_authority: not-authorized until an explicit release decision is recorded.