BOSTON (AP) ―The doctor confirmed the good news for Ron Sveden once the mass in his left lung came back from the lab: He didn't have cancer. He had a pea sprouting inside his chest.I mean, it's no fir tree, but still. One does not generally expect to find produce growing in one's lungs. It truly is amazing the kind of punishment the human body can take without breaking - stories abound of people who have fallen onto metal fences, gotten spikes or pitchforks driven through their skulls, or otherwise folded, spindled, or mutilated themselves beyond the average person's definition of "accident" and still emerge (relatively) unscathed.
"A couple days in a dark, wet environment, I'd sprout too," Dr. Jeff Spillane said Thursday. "It definitely had a sprout.
But to go from lung cancer to Pisum sativum is really pretty wild...
That is all.
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Speaking of spikes thru the head...
google the name... Phineas P. Gage.
He was an American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his incredible survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head. OUCHY
...the good news is, after harvesting the legume, there will be a net gain in nitrogen in the substrate for crop rotation.
I'm a geek.
Good lesson to teach your kids - don't put peas up your nose!
Some years back, a large woman walks into Charity Hospital ER in New Orleans with the stated complaint, "I gots a vine growin' out my coochie."
The ER resident, sure that he had misheard, did a cursory exam, and sure enough, she had a vine growing out of her vagina.
One pelvic exam and a D&C procedure later, they got the full story.
The woman was a local prostitute, and was on her period. Not one to let a little thing like menstruation stand in the way of a money-making opportunity, she used a potato as an improvised tampon.
During intercourse, the potato got pushed far enough back that she couldn't reach it, where it stayed for the next two weeks, until it sprouted.
I've got more "unusual objects stuck in unusual places" stories than I can count. Comes with the territory. ;)
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