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True story! A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.
Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.
He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed the growth in his lung.
Doctors believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, but it "went down the wrong way" and sprouted.
"One of the first meals I had in the hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them," Mr Sveden told a local Boston TV reporter.
Mr Sveden said the plant was about half an inch (1.25cm) in size.
"Whether this would have gone full-term and I'd be working for the Jolly Green Giant, I don't know. I think the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn't the cancer," Mr Sveden said.
He is currently recovering at home with his wife Nancy, who joked that God must have a sense of humour.
Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.
He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed the growth in his lung.
Doctors believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, but it "went down the wrong way" and sprouted.
"One of the first meals I had in the hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them," Mr Sveden told a local Boston TV reporter.
Mr Sveden said the plant was about half an inch (1.25cm) in size.
"Whether this would have gone full-term and I'd be working for the Jolly Green Giant, I don't know. I think the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn't the cancer," Mr Sveden said.
He is currently recovering at home with his wife Nancy, who joked that God must have a sense of humour.
I searched the net as I sometimes do and found the fir tree video:
(you have to get past the ad first for the Fir Tree Vid)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/tree-grows-inside-mans-lu_n_187932.html
Amazing....
so, guess we have to be careful what we put up our noses! hehe
(Aug 11.) -- Everyone knows that despite what the bigger kids say, if you swallow a watermelon seed, it's not going to grow in your stomach. The stomach is too acidic. If you really want to turn yourself into a human greenhouse, try inhaling a seed.
That was the case with Roy Sveden of Brewster, Mass., who was shocked and relieved when he learned that what he thought was a cancerous tumor in his lung was actually a half-inch long pea sprout. He joins Artyom Sidorkin, a Russian man who was found to have a five centimeter long pine tree growing in his lung, in the annals of truly weird medicine.
But wait -- how exactly does this sort of thing work?
According to Michael Vincent, a legume expert from Miami University of Ohio, the warm, moist environment likely triggered the seed to germinate. But it was in for a rough time from the start.
"There would be enough energy in the pea seed itself that it could survive for little while, I think, but it couldn't survive for very long without sunlight," he told AOL News.
Doctors suspect that Sveden had been eating peas when one went down the wrong pipe and ended up in his lung, though as a cooked vegetable would never have sprouted, it would seem that there must have been a raw specimen on his plate. Perhaps the incident will lead to a new old wives tale about the importance of thoroughly cooking your peas and then eating them slowly, or at least adhering to one of the above in a given meal.
Brewster cheerfully ate peas at the hospital after the surgery.
Hope this helps us understand how it happend,
Hugs and love to all, and guess we better be careful not to inhale our food.
Love Holly
But what or how it ever did I think it was weird science
maybe they were trying to grow something else
ABC News :
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/08/pea-sprout-removed-from-massachusetts-mans-lung.html
Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,599102,00.html
BBC :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050
So, as odd as it is, seems it really has happened...
Hugs to all,
Always, Holly
Careful what you eat, and how you swallow it!
That's a funny story!
Hugs, Sue
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/38673087#38673087
Interesting to hear him tell the story.
Breath Easy and have a nice day everyone,
Love Holly