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2010/08/12 14:09:59
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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It sprouted inside the lungs of this 75 year retired teacher from Massachusetts! And here I was remembering the old stories of my parents saying if I swallowed my gum a gum tree would grow inside of me!  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7940710/Cancer-patient-grows-pea-plant-in-his-lung.html Ron Sveden, a retired teacher from Brewster, Massachusetts, in the US, had been short of breath for months and was taken to hospital in May.
Doctors found a grainy spot on an X-ray and he prepared himself for a diagnosis of cancer.
The 75-year-old said: "I was told I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted. It is probably about a half-an-inch which is a pretty big thing."
Doctors believe Mr Sveden ate a pea that "went down the wrong way" before sprouting to 12mm (0.5ins) in size. The warm and moist conditions are thought to have encouraged it to grow.
Mr Sveden had been suffering from emphysema prior to being taken to hospital. His left lung was found to have collapsed but doctors could find no evidence of cancer.
He underwent more tests over the next two weeks, but they all came back negative for cancer.
Mr Sveden added: "Whether this would have gone full-term and I'd be working for the Jolly Green Giant, I don't know. But the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn't the cancer.
"One of the first meals I had in hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them."
His wife Nancy added: "God has such a sense of humour. I mean it could have been just nothing, but it had to be a pea, and it had to be sprouting."
He said he never felt anything growing in his chest and repeated coughing fits had failed to dislodge the legume.
He is now recovering from surgery.
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2010/08/12 14:12:08
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Angry Blood Angel Assault marine
Alexandria, VA
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Oh my lord.
Well...let me think of a bad pun.
Looks like he's
*Puts on sunglasses*
Green in the gills
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH.
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I ain't fraid a' no umies': Cuz youze is wif me;
Yer Dakka and yer Chop, they's pretty good
Youze gots a Kan in front o' me when da' umies' iz mucking about;
Youze paint me ead' wif oil;
Me gubbinz overfloweth with Dakka, and me wotzits runneth over with Chop.
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2010/08/12 14:13:13
Subject: Re:[Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Stoic Grail Knight
Houston, Texas
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OMG SO IT CAN HAPPEN!!!
my mom warned me....
You know how many watermellon seeds i have swallowed!
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Bretonnia- 
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2010/08/12 14:15:50
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress
Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.
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Harold?
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. |
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2010/08/12 17:05:08
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Sheffield, City of University and Northern-ness
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I bet that he wasn't very Happea
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2010/08/12 17:53:18
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Warplord Titan Princeps of Tzeentch
Pat that askala, O-H-I hate this stupid state
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Brings a new meaning to "a breath of fresh air".
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Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, its just a freight train coming your way! 
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2010/08/12 17:59:38
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Hopefully he can legume his normal way of life. It really must have been pod to hear the first time. I guess we can pea soup-ose that he'll be okay.
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2010/08/12 18:17:47
Subject: Re:[Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Calculating Commissar
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I'd like to just say this is nothing really new. Same thing happened earlier this year to a man in Russia. Doctors found a pine tree rooted in his lungs.
Still freaky though. Damn crafty trees trying to be like Bodysnatchers. We're onto them 
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2010/08/12 19:04:08
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Proud Triarch Praetorian
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It starts! They are attacking!
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2010/08/12 19:17:42
Subject: Re:[Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Satyxis Raider
In your head, screwing with your thoughts...
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metallifan wrote:I'd like to just say this is nothing really new. Same thing happened earlier this year to a man in Russia. Doctors found a pine tree rooted in his lungs.
Still freaky though. Damn crafty trees trying to be like Bodysnatchers. We're onto them
O.O
Linkage or it didn't happen...
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2010/08/12 20:09:40
Subject: Re:[Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Calculating Commissar
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http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/ There ya go. Sorry, it was 2009 not 2010. Oh, there -is- a picture of a human lung. So if you're really -that- weak stomached, don't click the link 
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2010/08/13 08:32:26
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Satyxis Raider
In your head, screwing with your thoughts...
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Heheheh... It's not that I doubted you ya see, it's just I was too lazy to Google it... 
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2010/08/13 18:47:05
Subject: Re:[Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Calculating Commissar
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Yea, but a post of "Linkz or it's a lie!!!1!!1!!!!!one!2" must be answered, lest a man forfeit his E-Peen
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2010/08/13 19:42:13
Subject: [Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Satyxis Raider
In your head, screwing with your thoughts...
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That's why I did it.
But hey, let me make it up to you... E-beer?
It's the Gods' own special brew, I didn't get this for cheap...
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2010/08/13 19:49:27
Subject: Re:[Pea News] Man has plant growing in his lungs.
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Calculating Commissar
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Ahh, E-Beer and E-Preztel. Good times 
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