Tree grows inside man's lung!!!

[maire]

I came across this weird story in Stuff yesterday ...

A Russian man who was being operated on for a suspected tumour ended up having a fir tree removed from one of his lungs.

The 5cm tree, was discovered by surgeons when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, according to Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Gazeta.

It is believed Mr Sidorkin inhaled a seed, which then sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.

He went to doctors complaining of extreme chest pain and coughing up blood.

Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev told the newspaper he was sure it was cancer.

"We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour. I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery."

The tree was discovered when surgeons took a biopsy before removing the major part of the man's lung.

"I thought I was hallucinating," said Dr Kamashev.

"I blinked three times as I was sure I was seeing things."

"It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," a relieved Mr Sidorkin told the paper.

[misilon]

hahhahhahahahahahaa
ohhh dear

I wonder I wonder I wonder

surely ,....a tree needs the sun does it not???

[buck]

my thoughts exactly misilon. Like Luke used to say in his young nieve way
"it must be true it was on the internet" lol

[cailz]

Curiouser and curioser this world gets.

Mind you, i have things sprouting inside my compost heap and that's a dark cave if there ever was one. Guessing as long as all the needs are met, things can grow without sunlight?

[maire]

My son & I said the same thing, but then I remembered mushrooms grow without sunlight, so I guess it could be possible.

[toerag]

Hybrid comes to mind as in human nature literally lol oh sorry lol