Gleefully stolen from wtf_omgz

[palsgraf_polka]

5 cm. fir tree removed from patient’s lung

"A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing blood.

The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports.

Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.

“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.

The five-centimeter branch was removed from the patient’s body.

“They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease,” Sidorkin says.

“It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me.”

It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.

Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study."

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Comments

[hylerj.livejournal.com]

Nothing is impossible

[emt420.livejournal.com]

Uh, snortin' pine cones is bad, kids, mmmkay?

[iron-chef-gein.livejournal.com]

I call bullshit. This is one of the Russian equivalents of Weekly World News. A tree could not have sprouted and grown in the environment of a lung.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

According to someone who was commenting on the original post (which of course, should be taken with a grain of salt, seeing as this here is the internet we're talking about), in her photosynthesis lab in a plant biology class, they were able to get all sorts of things to sprout and grow in a wholly dark but nutrient rich environment. Go figure.