Registry of the Evolved Database
File #16 May 2009 12:24
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 Scott Speedman |
A young man growing up in Seattle, Washington and was the son of a prominent neurosurgeon with a mother who was a brain surgeon they both practiced at Harborview Medical Center. Since his entire family were doctors it would seem only fitting that he become one as well. He was raised from birth that helping people was the right thing to do. Having the idea of becoming a prominent surgeon like his father or a very adept brain surgeon like his mother. It was put into his mind at a very young age to seek the medical field. His family helping him as much as they could during his younger years but they were kept fairly busy so he spent most of his time being raised by the family nanny or close by relatives. Attending the best private schools in the state of Washington that money could get. After his prep schooling he applied and was accepted into Johns Hopkins University for his undergraduate education and then went to Harvard University to complete for his doctorate and finishing at the top 10 percent of this class specializing in orthopedic surgery. At the age of 27, returning home after graduation. His parents helped to get him on in the same hospital as them as a general practitioner at Harborview and working there for 6 years at Harborview as a general practitioner. At the age of 33 he volunteered to go to New York to do some volunteer work.
Bad luck or timing on Chuck's part. Being young and naive with the teaching of his parents would change his course in life. Showing up in New York October 16th a few weeks before Midtown Man went nuclear. Showing up in New York and doing volunteer work in the local hospitals and community centers as a doctor to offer support and give medical attention to the less fortunate with having the full support of his parents. Leaving late one day after pulling a very long night shift at a late night clinic and stepping out into the mid afternoon day as the bright sun hit his face with a smile as giving himself the reassurance of a job well done. That day he felt an odd heat and then looked towards the explosion and unable to take his eyes off the explosion. From the sheer intensity of the blast and not realizing that he was staring at for as long as he did. Then blacking out once the residual blast hit him. Waking up with his eyes burning and thinking that it was nighttime, due to the fact he could not see a single thing. When in fact it was still middle of the day and he had only been passed out of for about 5 minutes, hearing sirens and people screaming and yelling all around him. Realizing he was now blind he got up and wondered randomly reaching out with his hands trying to find someone to help him.
Fate being what it is, a friend that he had made during his volunteer work at the clinic had just walked out of and by chance found him. He was hurt from the blast as well. But when Chuck reached out and made contact with his friend his friend's minor wounds began to heal instantly. Unknowing to Chuck, but his friend realizing this wonderful gift, told Chuck about it. At first his friend was a bit scared and didn't know what to think but never the less they had become good friends so they retained a trusting bond. His friend agreed to help him till he fully recovered. Though, Chuck learned that his retinas were burned in a similar fashion as solar retinopathy. The doctor that treated him went to explain that you can go blind by looking at the sun for more than about 10 seconds and that many early astronomers went blind or partially blind trying to observe the sun. So in a nutshell that was what had happened to Chuck, the situation was quite similar. That the light from the sun is too bright and that UVB and UVA were the rays from the sun that burned our eyes out if we stared at the sun to long and that our eyes evolved to see in normal daylight and at night and that his eyes were beyond what the body could naturally heal. Attempting to try to heal him self by apply his new unique gift on himself but unsuccessfully making it work. Beginning to live with the fact that he was now a blind doctor. Though, he still would not believe that he was blind permanently, he could heal others but not himself? What was he good for, if a doctor could not see and treat his patients? But his friend informed him that were quite a few blind practicing doctors in the world and not to lose heart. Later he learned that he could see, when he would lay hands on people, he could see the deformation or the break or the internal bleeding as if he was looking at it through a medical tube camera, but it took quite a bit of concentration.
Returning home after his accident in New York and his parents seeing the full magnitude of their sons blindness immediately took steps to so he could have a service animal and obviously to learn brail. Even though is trip to New York did not go as planned he never mentioned to his parents his new gift of healing. Especially, with the buzz about evolved people running around. Continuing to practice his trade at Harborview with his parents as a blind doctor for the next two years. His wanting to return to New York got to him. So he then took the initiative and applied to the medical review board in New York to find out what it would take for him to practice medicine in New York. Finally, getting the answer back and successfully completing what was required to legally practice in New York. Though, the hardest thing for Chuck was to find and hire a full time assistant, as the Medical board of New York required since he was blind. After a few months of searching and interview after interview he finally finding an assistant that was willing to move to New York! His father was quite agreeable with Chuck's choice of Bridget while his mother just gave the, "Yeh, sure as long as she does her job." But in the end assuring her son that he had made a good choice. Since his parents could still see and he obviously couldn't. Of course wanting an attractive assistant since no one likes to always be around an ugly one. So finally, Bridget and Chuck moved to New York and set up a clinic in the Little Italy district. Only charging a fraction of the cost of what the big hospitals charged, but making sure it was enough to pay all the bills and stay afloat since this was his lively hood. The cases that came in with little to no money he would offer free service to them, but asking them to pay whatever they could afford. It was his parents upraising that brought this on. As there is nothing wrong with help those people who are less fortunate.
Chuck gained the ability to heal after he lost his vision when the Midtown Man went nuclear. Losing his eyesight seemed to be the cost. He can heal if he chooses to and he also needs to have skin-to-skin contact with what he is healing. But he can also see in his mind what part of the body needs healing and can literally watch it heal in his mind when he truly concentrates on the task. Able, he can envision any bone splinters in the body if he is healing broken bone(s). Like a person telling a doctor their symptoms so a doctor can help diagnose, he doesn't really need to speak to the person but does so to seem normal, but he can diagnose with just skin-to-skin contact. The minute he loses the skin-to-skin contact the healing process stops. Depending on the severity of the issue his healing will determine how much of a drain it is on him and will determine recuperation time.
Everyone has the ability to heal over time as the body is it's own hospital and keeps it's own genetic coding. Chuck can grow new organs, rebuild/repair as needed taking the body's genetic coding and then rendering that organ inop as it is being repaired/reconstructed just like a new. Chuck can help to speed up the body's healing process, like helping it create an anti-virus for something like a cold or flue or to assist the body in some areas that the body cannot do, like repair a vital organ, re-grow tissue, help to destroy a blood infection faster. By communicating with the body and getting the genetic sequence he needs to rebuild an internal organ as part of his healing ability and with his medical knowledge. He doesn't store or memorize any of the genetic coding, just retrieves it long enough to use it.
The healing process is very taxing depending on the level of healing that is required. To heal a minor cut or flesh wound it does not impact him as much, but it does cause minor fatigue for everything he heals. When healing a severe wound like broken bone(s). Since he can almost see what the problem is in his mind. It takes a lot more concentration and wears him out faster. If he is reattaching any body limb and or reconstructing or growing a new organ or growing new body tissue or nerve cluster, repair old scars and wounds, including the brain matter but the brain will come back empty with no memories. He can also rebuild nerves and nerve clusters, through out the body, but again he will be spent for the day, but every healing job takes so much energy and he can only sense when he is getting low by physically getting exhausted. He can keep healing to the point of physical exertion and till collapses but he will need a few days of sleep to recover. Chuck can grow new body parts but the process takes a few days and will render him useless for the remainder of the day and the following day.
