Posted on 04/13/2009 8:41:59 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung
12:17 | 13/ 04/ 2009
MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Surgeons in Russia's Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man's lung, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Monday.
The discovery was made while Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from the Urals city of Izhevsk, was undergoing surgery.
Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood, doctors suspected cancer.
"I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things," Izhevsk surgeon Vladimir Kamashev told the paper.
Medical staff believe Sidorkin had somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted inside his lung. The spruce, which was touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed.
"It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," Sidorkin said.
If this were true we would have read about it in The National Enquirer!
LOL! Mom knows best. :)
When I was a little kid my grandmother warned me not to eat watermelon seeds because they would grow in my stomach.......She also had eyes in the back of her head, or so she said.
“So weird that it can grow in total darkness.”
from the article:
“...but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut”
Maybe it was his sunny disposition that allowed chlorophyll to form in the dark of his lungs.
“The seed contains the nutrients needed to grow up out of the ground, light isn’t needed until later.”
If this weren’t true, no seed could sprout, since it’s dark under the ground. If it were a seedling in the man’s lung, I’d have never raised the issue. From both the doctors’ account and the photograph, it appears to be a small tree. It doesn’t even look etiolated.
I guess Mom WAS right! If a girl swallows a watermelon seed it’ll grow in your stomach and in nine months you’ll have yourself a baby! ;)
LOL! Thanks for the giggle. I needed one today.
OK, I couldn’t come up with much except
the speciality would have to be
Pulmonary Arborology
see, I told you it wasn’t much.....
But only if he were from the OTHER Georgia not the one near Russia
LOL!!
I’ll refrain from John Birch jokes.
Fir tree man shocks doctors
RT | 13 April, 2009 | RT Wire
Posted on 04/13/2009 3:18:56 PM PDT by Timedrifter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2228334/posts
lol. Maybe that is what did it:)
That makes sense.
By the way. I like your nick name.:)))
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