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Pea Enters Lung, Grows Into Plant
Times of India ^ | Aug 12, 2010

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


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: thirdtimesthecharm
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1 posted on 08/12/2010 4:01:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

Growing your food inside you- Al Gore would love this.


2 posted on 08/12/2010 4:02:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; tubebender

Never did like peas.


3 posted on 08/12/2010 4:05:37 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: nickcarraway
"My blood pressure was very low. My oxygen count was very low. I was dehydrated, my left lung collapsed, and I had pneumonia,"

Damn that pea!

4 posted on 08/12/2010 4:08:49 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Gawd I love being an American.)
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To: nickcarraway

Something very similar happened to me with a watermelon seed.


5 posted on 08/12/2010 4:10:39 PM PDT by Krankor (What a field day for the heat. A thousand people in the street)
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To: nickcarraway

Bush’s fault


6 posted on 08/12/2010 4:10:43 PM PDT by grandpa jones (Obama must be exhausted, having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


7 posted on 08/12/2010 4:10:43 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: nickcarraway

Proves what I’ve been saying since I was a kid. Vegetables are bad for you.


8 posted on 08/12/2010 4:11:33 PM PDT by beandog
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To: nickcarraway
Thank goodness they caught it in time!

Who'd want to go through life like that?

9 posted on 08/12/2010 4:11:39 PM PDT by x
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To: nickcarraway

I guess he should have cooked them or gotten them canned.


10 posted on 08/12/2010 4:13:01 PM PDT by theymakemesick ( Filled with hatred for those that disagree, democrats are the most intolerant bigots on earth)
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To: nickcarraway

Waqs it really a pea plant?


11 posted on 08/12/2010 4:14:20 PM PDT by BobS
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Thank goodness they caught it in time!

L.O. freaking L.

I guess I shouldn't fear being disappointed by someone with the screename "x."

12 posted on 08/12/2010 4:21:47 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Gawd I love being an American.)
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder if there’s a Podcast of the operation....


13 posted on 08/12/2010 4:22:26 PM PDT by mikrofon (You trachea chances)
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To: nickcarraway

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!


14 posted on 08/12/2010 4:34:12 PM PDT by FelixFelicis
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To: Krankor

It happened to me with a seedless watermelon. Creepy.


15 posted on 08/12/2010 4:36:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SouthTexas

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...


16 posted on 08/12/2010 4:43:57 PM PDT by tubebender (Life is short so drink the good wine first...)
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To: nickcarraway

“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!”


17 posted on 08/12/2010 4:46:37 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Worthy of a ping to the garden crew?


18 posted on 08/12/2010 4:47:38 PM PDT by tubebender (Life is short so drink the good wine first...)
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To: tubebender

No peas for me please.


19 posted on 08/12/2010 4:47:51 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: SouthTexas

Pea Porridge Hot
Pea Porridge cold
Pea Porridge growing
in your lung two weeks old


20 posted on 08/12/2010 4:50:51 PM PDT by tubebender (Life is short so drink the good wine first...)
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