16-Year-Old Burned Nearly 80 Percent Of His Body After TikTook Challenge Gone Wrong

This is horrible. A teen from North Carolina has been hospitalized with extreme burns on his physique after making an attempt a TikTook problem that went improper.

According to WRAL, 16-year-old Mason Dark was out together with his mates final Sunday after they determined to attempt to full a harmful video problem on TikTook that concerned spaying a can of spray paint right into a lighter to create a makeshift flamethrower. (*80*) the experiment went awry, because the can exploded abruptly. The teen was then engulfed in flames. OMG! His mother, Holli Dark, recalled to the outlet on Thursday:

“They all heard a big boom, and then Mason came running out and [he] started taking off his shirt.”

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Mason jumped right into a river close to his residence in Wake Forest so as to put out the hearth and soothe his ache. (*80*) when he emerged from the water, his physique sustained some severe accidents. The teenager was rushed to the hospital and stays on the UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill, the place he had surgical procedure. Doctors quickly decided that just about 80 p.c of Mason’s physique was coated in third-degree burns. Awful. Holli advised WRAL:

“[We] come to find out now from the surgery, that he’s got the third-degree burns … it’s like a T in his back and it was from him taking off his shirt, and then it got stuck or something. We did not find out until yesterday that it was actually 76% of his body.”

And now, Holli shared that “he is unrecognizable” as his physique is bandaged head to toe, including:

“The way he looked when those kids saw him when he first came in, to what he looks like now, it’s 100 times different.”

Mason has already undergone a number of surgical procedures to get pores and skin grafts and is anticipated to spend one other six months within the burn unit. The household has arrange a GoFundMe to cowl any medical payments and bills for his restoration. Mason’s grandmother, Heidi Simpson, shared an replace on the fundraiser web page on Saturday, revealing that the medical doctors “want him off the ventilator soon” and his assessments for an infection have come again “negative” to this point. That is superb replace. However, Heidi additionally famous Mason remains to be on a ventilator earlier than including within the publish: