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Excuse me, there's a tree in my lungs.

Posted by intarso • 4/15/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Cancer, germinate, lungs, russia, seed, surgery, tree, weird

www.yahoo.com/s/1058687

www.express.co.uk/posts/view/95186/Surgeons-find-fir-tree-growing-in-man-s-...

"After the patient complained of serious chest pains, doctors started to remove what they thought was a lethal tumour.

But instead of a cancer they found the fir tree, which had already grown to two inches in length. The discovery was made by Russian doctors as they operated on Artyom Sidorkin, 28, at a hospital in the Ural Mountains."

"The seed germinated and later sprouted into the small tree inside one of the man’s lungs. Doctors said the fir, which was touching on blood vessels and causing severe pain, was successfully removed along with part of the patient’s lung."

The moral of the story? Hold your breath in the forest, otherwise you might start growing some shrubbery inside of you.

User Comments

4/15/09

crpitt

Nightmarish story.

/books appointment with doctor to check for apple tree.

I have just ate a handful of nuts, am I safe?

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1. 4/15/09
  
  intarso
  
  well if you start to smell of apple sauce or start sweating apple juice, you should probably get it checked out.
  
  as far as nuts...keep watch for squirrels trying to nibble on you.
4/15/09

Sam1982

a good excuse not to eat brocolli

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1. 4/15/09
  
  chicky401
  
  Uh oh I better get checked I love broccoli
4/15/09

chicky401

Wow that is crazy! Who would've thought this would or could happen?

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1. 4/15/09
  
  intarso
  
  I think this is a medical first. Very weird.
4/15/09

jflower36

Yeah it's weird. I mentioned it in my blog www.health-outlook.com/2009/04/14/doctors-think-a-man-has-cancer-until-they...

I'm not completely convinced. But crazy things do happen.

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4/15/09

becthomasphotograp

I read about that yesterday and couldn't believe it. I mean what do you say to that but WOW.

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4/15/09

LynneaUrania

Good Lord, now we have one other thing to worry about while walking on a mountain trail!

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4/15/09

cookingasshole

at least he was getting plenty of oxygen

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4/15/09

mikeny07

I eat watermelon seeds all the time. I never had a watermelon grow in me yet.

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1. 4/15/09
  
  intarso
  
  "Are you pregnant?"
  
  "nah, that's just a watermelon in my intestine"
4/15/09

LynneaUrania

I have had squash grow in the bathroom sink, though when seeds got stuck in the drain.

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4/16/09

drdebbrown

I was amazed by how many news reporters mindlessly read the text saying that he had "swallowed" the seed. I have great faith that they would realize their error if they just thought for a moment about how things get into our lungs: by BREATHING, not EATING. The man breathed in a tree spore. But the mindless reading of the teletype was a perfect example of what the major Teachings from around the world have been talking about: it's very easy to just go through the motions as if we're asleep, without really *thinking.* We need to wake up!

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4/16/09

letter2V

This is why I don't like to go camping...shocking!

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4/16/09

codesucker

I protest! They ended up killing the tree

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1. 4/16/09
  
  becthomasphotograp
  
  That is a good point, it's very anti-Earth Day.
2. 4/17/09
  
  intarso
  
  kill the human; save the tree.
  
  this message has been sponsored by:
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA
3. 4/17/09
  
  codesucker
  
  If we kill ALL humans in favor of trees the world would be better off.. how's that for earth day spirit?
4. 4/17/09
  
  qelqoth
  
  I don't give a toss about Earth Day.
  
  But the mindless violence...love it.
4/17/09

idealpinkrose

I remember when I was young, my mom always reminds me not to eat some fruit seeds or else they will grow in me. hehehehe...

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