Did you know that a pea can grow in your lung?

[trillium13 84]

BREWSTER, Mass. -- There was a problem sprouting in a local man's lung. Doctors originally thought the new growth was a tumor, but when they looked closer, they got a big surprise.

“I was told I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted,” said Ron Sveden.

It was not the diagnosis Ron Sveden was expecting. He had prepared himself to hear the words cancer and tumor, but a plant growing in his lung?

“Probably about a half-an-inch, which is a pretty big thing of course,” said Sveden.

Ron had been sick for months. He was already fighting emphysema when his health took a turn for the worse.

“I was not doing too well, a lot of coughing, I was very listless,” said Sveden.

On Memorial Day Sveden’s wife called 911, and he was rushed to the hospital where doctors took x-rays and found his left lung collapsed.

For two weeks they ran tests but they all came back negative for cancer, until one doctor found the plant growing in his lung.

“Whether this would have gone full-term and I’d be working for the jolly green giant, I don’t know. I think the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn’t the cancer,” said Sveden.

Ron said he never felt anything growing in his chest, just a lot of coughing.

Doctors suspect he had eaten a pea at some point in the last couple of months and it went down the wrong way, and then began to grow.

“One of the first meals I had in the hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them,” said Sveden.

His wife Nancy was beyond happy with this strange twist of fate.

“God has such a sense of humor. It could have been just nothing, but it had to be a pea, and it had to be sprouting,” said Nancy Sveden, Ron’s wife.

Sveden continues to recover at home. In fact, friends and neighbors have had fun with this; they sent him pea seeds and canned peas all in good fun.

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link has an xray pic

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12001910794327/man-finds-plant-growing-inside-his-lung/

[Jenn! 918]

sounds like an episode of house

[TBoneTX 46,284]

I opened a canandaigua of peas yesterday, put them in a blender, and ate the result with no problem. Visualize whirled peas, si man.

[Ban Hammer 13,651]

hose him down with roundup!

[thongd4me 69]

Not unusual, he unwittingly inhaled the seed

and it presented the perfect conditions for germination:

darkness & moisture.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Linda Blair knows how to expel peas.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Wow, who knew?

[slim 1,533]

“One of the first meals I had in the hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them,” said Sveden.

People never learn, do they?

[*julez* 124]

There was a guy a year or two ago who had a small fir tree growing in his lung due to inhaling a seed. Fairly uncommon, but I guess it does happen.

[trillium13 84]

I opened a canandaigua of peas yesterday, put them in a blender, and ate the result with no problem. Visualize whirled peas, si man.

A whole canandaigua? Wow! Glad you escaped unscathed.

There was a guy a year or two ago who had a small fir tree growing in his lung due to inhaling a seed. Fairly uncommon, but I guess it does happen.

I remember seeing a picture of that, really creepy.

[Meriem_DZ 37]

Way back when I was in nursing school, my instructor told us of a patient she had in the emergency room. The women had come in with the complaint of " leaves growing out of her virginia" This was her exact words. Come to find out there was a piece of broken off potato up her "virginia" that had sprouted and the leaves were hanging out.

Meriem

[trillium13 84]

Way back when I was in nursing school, my instructor told us of a patient she had in the emergency room. The women had come in with the complaint of " leaves growing out of her virginia" This was her exact words. Come to find out there was a piece of broken off potato up her "virginia" that had sprouted and the leaves were hanging out.

Meriem

[thongd4me 69]

Way back when I was in nursing school, my instructor told us of a patient she had in the emergency room. The women had come in with the complaint of " leaves growing out of her virginia" This was her exact words. Come to find out there was a piece of broken off potato up her "virginia" that had sprouted and the leaves were hanging out.

Meriem

Not a hoax, it is an actual place!