Posted on 04/13/2009 3:18:56 PM PDT by Timedrifter
A young man from the capital of Russia’s Udmurtian Republic was diagnosed with cancer, and had to undergo an operation which revealed the shocking truth – he had no cancer but… a tree growing in his lung.
It sounds like a story from Burger’s Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, when the eccentric Baron shot a cherry stone at a deer and it sprang into a cherry tree on the deer’s head.
For 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin, though, it was no fun at all.
As Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper found out, he often had chest pains, and was coughing up blood.
An X-Ray showed a new growth in his lung, and doctors were certain it was a cancerous one.
Fortunately, when they dissected Artyom’s chest, it was decided to cut out a small piece first, and to carry out an express biopsy test. The doctor made an incision in the lung and saw… a fir tree.
“I thought it was a hallucination,” said Vladimir Kamashev, deputy head doctor of the Udmurtian oncology hospital that was carrying out the operation. “I said to my assistant – come here and take a look…it seems as if there was a fir tree there…!
(Excerpt) Read more at russiatoday.com ...
Maybe he just loved that Christmas Tree smell.
On the next episode of “When Plants Attack”.
I always knew my mom was wrong when she told me to go ahead, and eat the seeds. “They can’t hurt you.”
He didn’t need vegetables in his diet.
Bizarre, but ... he’s better off than if he had really had cancer. No chemo now.
“BUSH’S FAULT...”
Obama moves to eliminate all Fir trees.
or...
Obama promises stimulus money to implant Fir trees in all. Calls it an “issue of fundamental fairness”.
.......BUSH’S FAULT...
The practice is but foreshadowing of the end of carbon emissions. By growing a tree within the lungs, the man’s CO2 emissions were reduced by half. When extended to all, global warmong will be mitigated
A unique exemplar.
A sign from Al Gore!!!!
Ok someone explain how that tree is green? Chlorophyll only becomes green after exposure to light. Psst, it’s really dark inside the body.
How did it grow without light?
Now Mother Nature will have to place labels on trees warning against sniffing them.
It wasn’t green because he bet his drinking buddies he could stuff a tree up his nose.
so, is the watermelon story true? swallow a seed and you grow a H20melon in your stomach? (humor attempt)
The Day of the Triffids comes true ;-)
“I always knew my mom was wrong when she told me to go ahead, and eat the seeds.”
Heh. Yeah. I ate a lot of watermelon seeds over the years, and now my tummy always looks extremely bloated.
FMCDH(BITS)
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