Of course, he went to the hospital, not to Xavier’s “School for Talented Teens.” Doctors were shocked by what they saw. This was a very rare and peculiar case.
The boy had a very large ulcer on his forearm that had not gone away for two months. The first thing that came to the doctors’ mind was a drug addiction, but the situation was much different than that…
When the child came to the hospital, he looked healthy from the outside.
The 15-year-old boy, who came to the hospital’s trauma center with an ulcer on his forearm, seemed perfectly healthy except for the ulcer on his arm. But his arm looked really bad.
Of course, it wasn’t the first thought of the doctors that he did this to make himself look like an X-Men character. Physicians, suspecting substance abuse, sent the boy to the psychiatric center, and all the details of the story were revealed here.
The boy, who was impressed by the movie he watched, believed that he would be like the characters there and rolled up his sleeves.
According to the Journal of Laboratory Physicians report, the boy had watched the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Fascinated by the characters in the movie, he decided to find a broken thermometer and inject himself with mercury. So he would have super powers like those characters…
He probably tried to be the character Mercury in the comics, who can melt and solidify at will due to his mercury-like blood, or the Wolverine character whose bones are covered with the metal alloy adamantium.
It was revealed during the investigation that he also did something to look like other superheroes.
During the investigation, they learned that the boy also allowed spiders to bite him in order to gain Spider-Man-like powers. However, this situation was not given much importance compared to the mercury that he injected himself.
Tests confirmed that he had high mercury levels in his urine. Fortunately, he was only able to inject it under the skin, not into his veins. Doctors cut the lesions and removed the mercury area.
After the dead tissue and mercury were removed from the body, the boy received a thick skin transplant. After the operation, he left the hospital in good health.
According to the doctors, this was an exceptional case, but the child had no other mental or physical problems.
Doctors said it was too unusual for the child to be hospitalized for these reasons, and that in most cases the deliberate injection of mercury was part of suicide attempts. They also added the following words:
“Other unusual cases of self-injection of mercury include a 14-year-old boxer who received an injection of metallic mercury because he thought it would enhance sports performance, and cases who believed that injections of mercury would improve sexual potency.”
However, the boy had no other psychiatric problems and his IQ was normal, he just made strange decisions to gain superpowers…
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