Who'd want to go through life like that?
Posted on 08/12/2010 4:01:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man, who the doctors suspected to be suffering from a cancerous tumor, is found to have a pea sprouting inside his windpipe.
"My blood pressure was very low. My oxygen count was very low. I was dehydrated, my left lung collapsed, and I had pneumonia," 75-yr-old Ron Sveden from Brewster told the Herald.
After an X-ray showed a spot on Sveden's windpipe, Cape CodHospital doctors thought the retired teacher was suffering from a cancerous tumor. "Prior to Memorial Day I was going down hill," Sveden said. "My appetite went away and I was coughing a lot. I just had this listless feeling where I just wanted to lie down. I had no ambition to do anything."
After samples were tested, doctors told Sveden that the spot was not cancer but a plant sprouting inside him. It seems Sveden had been eating peas, one went down the wrong pipe, then grew to an inch-and-a-half in his lung, collapsing it. Through surgery they removed the plant and Sveden's health improved.
"Thankfully it's all over," he said. With a good sense of humor and new outlook of life he deals with friends and family affectionately calling him "pea brain" showering him with cans of peas and bags of seeds.
Read more: Pea enters lung, grows into plant - Mad, Mad World - World - The Times of India
Growing your food inside you- Al Gore would love this.
Never did like peas.
Damn that pea!
Something very similar happened to me with a watermelon seed.
Bush’s fault
Hey guys.
This is not all that unusual.
Just Google ‘growing in lung’ or some variation of that.
Some guy had a pine tree growing in his lungs.
Proves what I’ve been saying since I was a kid. Vegetables are bad for you.
Who'd want to go through life like that?
I guess he should have cooked them or gotten them canned.
Waqs it really a pea plant?
L.O. freaking L.
I guess I shouldn't fear being disappointed by someone with the screename "x."
I wonder if there’s a Podcast of the operation....
Dang! And here I thought my older brother was lying about what would happen if I swallowed a watermelon seed. Remind me to thank him!
It happened to me with a seedless watermelon. Creepy.
Please call my appointment secretary for a few hours on my couch and I guarantee we will get to the root cause of your Pea Phobia or your money back...
“A man, who the doctors suspected to be suffering from a cancerous tumor, is found to have a pea sprouting inside his windpipe.”
I wish Arnie S. could have been there to say, “It’s not a toomah!”
Worthy of a ping to the garden crew?
No peas for me please.
Pea Porridge Hot
Pea Porridge cold
Pea Porridge growing
in your lung two weeks old
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