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| 'Fir tree' sprouts in man's lung
Surgeons in Russia were astounded to find what they say is a 5cm fir tree growing inside a man's lung. Artyom Sidorkin, 28, visited doctors in the central city of Izhevsk complaining of intense chest pain and said he had been coughing up blood. After consulting X-rays, doctors were "100 percent sure" Mr Sidorkin had a tumour and decided on surgery to remove the cancer. But when they opened him up, surgeons instead found a small fir tree growing inside his lung. "I thought I was hallucinating," said surgeon Vladimir Kamashev. "I asked my assistant to have a look: 'Come and see this — we've got a fir tree here'. He nodded in shock. I blinked three times as I was sure I was seeing things." Dr Kamashev said he believed Mr Sidorkin must have inhaled a fir seed, which sprouted inside his lung and began growing into a tree. The pain he felt was caused by the plant rubbing against his capillaries, Mr Kamashev said. "It was very painful — but to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," Mr Sidorkin said. "I'm so relieved it's not cancer." The discovery has not been independently verified. |
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| Well. I'm speechless. Wow! |
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| Hmm, think of all the times when you were a kid that you were told not to swallow apple or watermelon seeds because they would grow in your stomach... |
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- Posted by token28001 zone7 NC (My Page) on Wed, Apr 15, 09 at 21:03
| Kids, that's why you're not supposed to put peas up your nose. |
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| Or swallow your gum. Geez Louise, I've been trying to germinate tree seeds for 8 years now - no luck. To think that all I needed to do was inhale the friggin' seed! PV |
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| That's more than a sprout. That's a years worth of growth on that seedling. Makes me wonder, I don't think it could live that long without light. |
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| I dont believe it. I guess it could get oxygen, but like you said above, how was it able to turn green without light? I smell a rat! |
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- Posted by nancy_drew 5 nw chgo burbs (My Page) on Fri, Apr 17, 09 at 11:22
| I do believe it. There's a whole lot of germination and even plant growth that takes place inside a very dark compost heap. Those worm bins are especially good at it. Why is a seed, germinated inside a wet paper towel, in the dark refrigerator, green? I also think that it's a bit hard to determine just how big the sprout/seedling was, from a close up picture. |
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| True or not, it's a great story! |
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| Makes me think I should hold my breath while emptying a packet of seeds into a container! Linda |
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- Posted by nancy_drew 5 nw chgo burbs (My Page) on Wed, Apr 22, 09 at 12:50
| Posted by dorisl: "I dont believe it. I guess it could get oxygen, but like you said above, how was it able to turn green without light? I smell a rat!" You know Doris, you did ask a good question about light. I don't think our insides are ask dark as it seems. Have you ever held your hand over lit a flashlight? Our bodies are not really solid, our skin actually breathes. If our skin can absorb drugs through the use of a patch, absorb water, etc, then why not UV light rays? This would make for an excellent episode of Myth Busters! |
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- Posted by alwaysagarden CA 9b (My Page) on Sat, Apr 25, 09 at 21:08
| I am skeptical as well. I can seed it may have had good sprouting conditions, but in order to "grow green" it does need light. |
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