Posted on 04/14/2009 11:15:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Shocked Russian surgeons claim they found a five-centimetre fir tree growing inside a man's lung as they operated on him for suspected cancer.
The amazing discovery apparently was made when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a serious tumour.
Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. Doctors were convinced he had cancer, Russian website mosnews.com reported.
'We were 100 per cent sure,' said surgeon Vladimir Kamashev from Izhevsk in the Urals. 'We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour.
'I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.'
Before removing part of the man's lung, the surgeon investigated the tissue - and said they found what looked like grown fir tree needles in it.
'I thought I was hallucinating,' said Kamashev.
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LOL... I graduated from high school there (Elyria, Ohio). Just funny seeing that...
No kiddin'!
I once spent two weeks at a sanatorium run by the military on the Crimean Peninsula. Upon arrival, all inductees had to undergo a preliminary medical examination. The physician (female) who examined me used an old-style wooden stethoscope to listen to my heart. They didn't have wooden tongue depressors, though - the physician used her finger!
That was in the year 2002!
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“Do fir trees work differently?
Nope.”
Then I stick to my view he inhaled a piece of a fir tree. It is green in the pictures.
That’s a hell of a piece to inhale! I don’t see any green inthe pic. Brown, maybe, but not green. then again, the stuff that’s supposed to look reddish is a bright magenta color.
(for those who plan to give me crap and take my man-card away for being male and knowing what magenta is, my GF has a bra this color, and she calls the color magenta. Otherwise, i’d have no idea what to call that color)
it runs in the family tree.. bet? ;-)
Doctor: I’m sorry, but you are going to need surgery.
Patient: What fir?
Good One! Too bad it’s true.
There was a book about this:
“A Tree Grows in Russian”
Not quite so funny for the guy shown on a medical emergency/Discovery Health show a couple of years ago. He fell off of a ladder onto a tree and shoved a tree branch right up the old backdoor. The hospital filmed parts of the removal and it made you cringe just to see the branch in his intestines. They actually used a power saw to cut the branch into pieces for removal.
Have you ever seen a plain film with a tumor that looked like a pine tree?
“take my man-card away for being male and knowing what magenta is”
Tell em you used to work in a color photo lab. Only reason I know what magenta is. Now, if you know what taupe is, turn yourself into the man police.
LMAO. I do know what taupe is because i went to buy a suit, and the fag salesmen suggested one. LMAO, i didn’t need a new suit that bad that day.
They should have at least spruced up the medical lab before inviting all this publicity.
Reminds me of the Seinfeld with George’s dad and the corkscrew macaroni.
No, but I thought of looking for this story. Thanks for the ping!
I love this comment from the article site:
“Oh sure there was a tree growing in his lungs and in that tree they also found a birds nest, a lost kite and the head of an axe which got broken off its handle when the little people, who live in his stomach tried to cut it down. They were ever so hungry and needed the wood to built a fire so they could cook up chunks of his liver.”
LOL!
It looks rather more like the broken tip than a seedling. The needles appear too mature and dense for a seedling.
Wonder if he would qualify for one of those climate change carbon offset thingies ...
He is a mouth breather?
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