One (Weird) Thing Leads to Another...

I was going to make my own snarky comment on the story I saw at Smijer & Buck's place about how Australia is banning Santa's trademark "ho ho ho" when I came across this gem:

Woman has 33-pound tumor removed

BEIJING - Chinese doctors operating on a woman with abdominal pain expected to find an inflamed appendix but discovered a football-sized 33-pound tumor instead, a Beijing daily reported on Thursday.

Surgeons at the capital's Chaoyang Dongba hospital spent 30 minutes removing the tumor from Xiao Wen's abdomen, the Beijing Times said. It measured 16 inches by 12 inches and is believed to have been benign.

That is, of course, benign except that it was larger than a toddler...

I can't resist the easy snark, though:

Her family had not noticed anything wrong with Xiao Wen's stomach as at 251 pounds, she was already "comparatively fat," the paper said.

Xiao Wen, whose weight ballooned after she developed a lymphatic disorder as a child, said before the operation that she hoped it "could help her lose weight."

Well, you just went from 251 pounds to 218 pounds. That's a start right there...