Temple of Elemental Evil, revisited

[Jaymann]

Apparently that's not what the Heal skill does. I found this:

Use this skill to keep a badly wounded friend from dying. Heal can only be used for a dying creature. If a character has negative hit points and is losing hit points (at the rate of 1 per round, 1 per hour, or 1 per day), a character with the Heal skill can make him stable. A character can be healed if the Heal check succeeds against a DC of 15. A stable character is unable to regain hit points on his own but will no longer lose any hit points.

I had a chance to use that and it worked. But I was also paralyzed with no way to cure so I reloaded.