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Plant sprouts in man's lungHow can a pea grow in a man’s lung? That's been a water cooler topic for the better part of this week. It happened to 75-year-old Ron Sveden, who had a half-inch-long sprout removed from his lung, which was first reported by a 20-year-old news intern at the Cape Cod Times on August 8. The story was picked up by TV stations, newspapers and websites around the world. Sveden was very sick when he was hospitalized on Memorial Day – he was having more difficulty breathing than he usually does with his emphysema. Sveden was expecting to learn he had lung cancer. Instead, he tells a Boston television station: “I was told that I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted.” Dr. Jeff Spillane removed the obstruction. He tells CNN at first he couldn't see that a pea had been lodged in the lung because there was so much infected, swollen tissue around it. "His whole lobe was collapsed and there was pus behind...it was entrapped in what we call granulation tissue." But once removed, he says it looked like a pea or a bean. “It had a shoot coming out." Spillane, a thoracic surgeon at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts, doesn’t know how long the seed was in Sveden’s lung, but he believes it stayed in the airway because Sveden’s existing lung disease didn’t allow him to breathe very well and he couldn't cough it out. “Most of the time I'm dealing with pretty devastating illness,” Spillane says. But this case is different. “He really did get a very good outcome.” As for the likelihood of something sprouting inside the body, experts say it’s not impossible. Walter Reeves, a horticulturist, author and radio host in Atlanta, Georgia, says it’s conceivable if a seed gets lodged in a lung. “Isn't that what happens when a seed is underground and gets moisture and warmth? They [seeds] don't need light” he adds, at least not for the first two or three days. Reeves doesn’t have more details about Sveden’s situation than what’s been reported in the news media, but he points out that this could happen only with raw peas or beans or peanuts. Cooked peas or other legumes cannot germinate or sprout. Reeves says a raw peanut could easily sprout, as could dried peas, after soaking in water. “Those are quite capable of germinating.” Spillane says children, in particular, are known to have a peanuts go down the wrong way and get lodged in the lung, which is a very serious problem. “Kids have died from that stuff,” he says. Spillane is a little surprised at all the attention this story had received. He says removing objects from patients’ lungs happens frequently. “A week later [after Sveden’s surgery], I pulled a tooth out [of another patient]." Dr. Steve Georas, a pulmonologist in Rochester, New York, agrees. He says people inhale things into their lungs frequently, probably because the trachea and the esophagus are so close to each other. “We had a similar case at the University of Rochester where I practice. A patient had a pea wedged in his bronchus – it didn't turn into a plant." Spillane says he went into surgery to help people and to "pull the thorn out of the lion's paw. " Sveden’s sprouting pea, the surgeon says, “was the ultimate thorn in a lion's paw, I guess.”
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If he were to have slipped into a COMA, would he then have been in a "vegetative state?"
ROFLMAO
wow that old man has a cool story to tell the grandkids.
What an adorable old couple. imagine his thinking before hand, that it may be cancer. Im really happy these ppl can laugh!
Yeah, when a worm can grow in the intestine why not a plant in the lung.
I'd take a pea over worms any time. Many people have worms in their body.
...so, did the man's breath have a pea-nesy quality to it?
i like turtles
i like them too
o_O
This is just bad journalism. The article specifically says that this could only happen with uncooked peas. Why is there a picture of a can of peas? Are you trying to be funny? I would laugh if the Le Sueur peas company decided to sue you. That would be a riot.
Chew your food. How did you ingest a seed whole? By not chewing! Stop inhaling when you stuff food in your mouth. Human vacuum is irony, stop making it true.
Would love to join this conversation but it's time to water the garden growing in my head.
Hey!! Deb's a Chia pet!!
That's why your mother told you to chew your food slowly and don't inhale it like it is your last meal.
Sprout pics or it didn't happen!!
Pictures don't prove anything these days. Well... it proves people are becoming adept at photoshop. It all comes down to whether you trust the source or not...
Wheter it is a sprout or a larvae is not important here... what is important is that it looked like a sprout and it had to be removed. It could be a who knows what mutated virus... and it is its own fault that it looks like a pea, therefore it was disposed of.
Years ago when my mother was growing up in Germany during the war, her neighbors gifted her Cherries and a peach for her birthday. They told her (jokingly) if she swallowed the pits she could grow a cherry tree. She was hungry. She LOVED fruit. It seemed like a good idea. To this day she tells about how hard it was to swallow that peach pit!! While we laugh, perhaps the old natives knew something we didn't!
If it was hard to swallow, I just cant picture the other way around.
The last time a story like this popped up, something about a tree growing in a lung it was proven to be a hoax. This will likely be done here as well.
I wonder if some day pot smokers will be able to grow it in their lungs....just sayin'
got my fingers crossed!!!
that sounds like something only a pothead would dream up. lol
Maybe there was a Pea in his Pot
It was my 7th Christmas when I discovered that sticking little bits of the pine needles from the tree into my peepee I could then shoot tem out with some degree of accuracy simply by going pee a little bit...sadly I ran out of fuel after about the tenth time I tried it and the liitle bit of pine needle stayed inside my peepee. After freaking out because I coudn't dislodge the final "bullet my Mom calmly had me drink a bunch of water and eventually I was able to fire the final projectile. Years later I was diagnosed as an idiot.
Thanks for sharing. Leave the forest to the real squirrels.
A very curious child you were, hilarious story...
Now, that's organic......
Must have been a Monsanto genetically modified pea. Depopulation one pea at a time.
I ate corn for several days and cannot get rid of the infection from getting sick...It is in your sinuses and lungs.
"god has such a sense of humor" , what?? lol these people are insane!! They find GOD everywhere...
The horror...
THIS IS ALL OBAMAS FAULT!!!!
No "Bush" did it.
I KNEW IT. SOME DUMB ASS HAD TO PUT OBAMA IN SOMETHING TOTALLY NON RELATED. IDIOTS!!!!
If you don't finish your peas, one will grow in an old man's lung.
God... stories like this make me afraid to ever eat a vegetable again! Fricken plants!
He went to the doc and said, "Everytime I sneeze, it sounds like Pea-Kaaachu!"
You made me laugh!!!!
these comments r just too hysterical.
I Just Snorted All my Weed seeds! wish me luck guys! big money big money! hope its all feminized seeds.
"what you need man?"
"let me get a qtr..."
*cough, cough* "that will be $75" -my price thought about it for 10 min LOL
A cooked Legume will in fact grow into a full blown plant that can produce if nurtured. I don't know where their information comes from because i've seen it on many occasions with pinto beans
Okay, I'm buying a can of LeSeur peas and planting them to see if any sprout!
i loveit...you all are wonderful...enjoy....the ...ride....
Well, good for him, at least he's not a peaon but rather he's a peain.
The white house did it!
Probably the "Bush" white house...ha...ha...ha!
Keep it green!
i loveit..you guys arewonderfull...enjoy theride...
Well, pea (pee) on this. I am from the south and I think I would rather make love than talk about a little of a thing. Go for the biggest sprout, you can find and take a hole of it and buggy on!
Maybe he would have become a plant creature if they let it grow. He could have been a super hero...Sprout Man or something. Man, this is freaking me out. Gonna have nightmares about the sprout monster growing out in the swamp.
Yuck...I'm sorry I started reading these comments about people reporting thing growing out of here and there. TMI people!! Why do news reports like these make you feel like you have to divulge all this disgusting info??
Airborne seeds float through the air and germinate upon finding a moist landing pad. Fungi from trees have been known to proliferate the lungs of some people in the northeast. People must breathe in these tiny seeds and microscopic plant fungi all the time. My guess is the ordinary healthy immune system destroys the invading seed, preventing germination, and likewise kills any inhaled fungi. Whereas, this elderly man might have been immune compromised (perhaps due to advanced age) and his immune system didn't fight the seed as it began to grow as if in moist soil. That is why those with immune problems should wear facemasks when leaving the house.
This is gross folks. What's next? I don't want to hear about that either.
That is nothing, every Christmas my uncle Fred would pull nickles out of my ear...One year he actually got a quarter out of there. WEIRD!!
Too bad he's so ill otherwise.
- A
From my recollection, the same thing happened about 5-7 years ago where they found a plant growing in a lady's lung if I am not correct. Or maybe it is just another one of those ground hog days. Well at least it is nice to know the human body is adaptable to most things. One thing I don't remember reading, did the physicians suspect the patient aspirated the actual pea at some point which lended itself to this event?
The outrage......of what PEATA would think about killing a perfectly good "pea" plant? Now, I am going to run around naked, shoving peas up my nose while I give a speech to congress. LOL!
Maybe the plants are rebelling against our turning the world into a desert. But seriously, there are some plants which will root almost anywhere. Locust trees (not related to Middle-Eastern locusts, but the American black locust) will grow new trees from small pieces of "dead" roots or branches. We weed all the time; these shoot up everywhere. I always wash hands afterwards, but I am concerned. The locust is related to the pea (but is poisonous), and could invade anywhere.
I kinda have to agree with his wife, God really does have a great since of humor!!!
I love this story, and it turned out happy for the couple! I'm glad they have a sense of humor about it, too.
In about 1991/92 I wrote my first songs officially and recorded on first attempt good melody for each.
This story brings to mind my funeral type theme song – I Pant Takes Life i'm sure you'll find the lyrics interesting
A Plant Takes Life
A Plant Takes Life
As Someone passes into the next world
A plant takes life as someone passes into the next world
But for a few moments or minutes
The soul is captured in the green of the earth
A plant takes life
As someone passes to the next world
But for a few moments or minutes
The soul is captured in the green of the earth
The Time Swings
And the unborn transfigure themselves through the leaves of imperfection
The World has waiting for them
Much is seen from the root to the trauma of recycled man
A Plant takes life
As someone passes to the next world
But for a few moments or minutes
The soul is captured in the green of the earth
The time swings
And the unborn transfigure themselves
Through the leaves of imperfection the world has waiting for them
Much is seen from the root to the trauma of recycled man
Woe it is for those who find their own
Among the dead leaves of eternity
Woe it is for those who find their own
Among the ruin of material things
Having missed their call to save
From the plant that takes life
When the captive soul passes into rebirth
Or the freedom of mind in spiritual extinction
Woe it is for those who find their own
Among the dead leaves of eternity
Woe it is for who find thei own
Among the ruin of material things
Having missed their call to save
From the plant that takes life
When the captive soul passes into rebirth
Or the freedom of mind in spiritual extinction
Woe it is for those who find their own
Among the dead leaves of eternity
Woe it is for those who find their own
Among the ruin of material things
Having missed their call to save
From the plant that takes life
When the captive soul passes
Into another dimension in time
Or the Freedom of mind in spiritual extinction
A plant takes life
It awakens a change
Like a statue frozen but with living eyes
A plant takes life
It awakens a change
Like a statue frozen but with living eyes
It holds your gaze
In wonder of where it dies
Much is left unknown
In a world remiss with lies
A plant takes life
It awakens a change
Like a statue frozen but with living eyes
It holds your gaze in wonder of where it dies
Much is left unknown
In a world remiss with lies
The time swings and another drummer cries
The plant takes life
It holds your gaze
In wonder of where it does
Much is left unknown
In a world remiss with lies
The time swings and another crusader dies
Part away the tears of the plant that takes life
Let it fall as rain on a shadow of ice
For all that's passed has one more life
And all that's glad has no more strife
Part away the tears of the plant that takes life
Let it fall as rain on a shadow of ice
Take up the beat of the plant that takes life
Watch if it leads and speaks through psychic reeds
For grief isn't always its end
And sometimes the plant return to you alive
Part away the tears of the plant that takes life
Let it fall as rain on a shadow of ice
For all that's passed has one more life
And all that's glad has no more strife
A plant takes life
As statues of persons passing or troubled freeze in time
A plant takes life
As statues of persons passing or troubled form sublime
The soul of humanity buys a line
A plant takes life
As statues of persons passing or troubled freeze in time
A sacrifice creates an expensive advice
You may prune it wings
But remember its state of mind
You may water its soil
But don't lose its oil\
It grows from another place in mime
A plant takes life
As statues of persons passing or troubled form sublime
A plant takes life
The soul of humanity buys a lone
A sacrifice creates an expensive advice
You may prune its wings
But remembe its state of mind
You may water its soil
But' don't lose its soil
For it grows with another cue in mind
The riddle doesn't always rhyme
You may prune its wings
But remember its state of mind
It grows with another place in mime
The riddle doesn't always rhyme
I beleive a bunch of crooked whore involved pedophile murdering involved singers were mocking me as if they wrote and sang my many songs and also play acted them in movies. I don't really pay too much attention to singers to catch all of them
Theresa Noelle Younan YMMA -III interpole galactica i-pic nation of nations trans ocean trans continental world ruler, lord spirit madonna monarch. i've been busy running for my life for so long but i guess you're all running in your graves now for it.