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http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-16/Fir_tree_man_shocks_doctors.html

A young man from the capital of Russia’s Udmurtian Republic was diagnosed with cancer, and had to undergo an operation which revealed the shocking truth – he had no cancer but… a tree growing in his lung.

It sounds like a story from Burger’s Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, when the eccentric Baron shot a cherry stone at a deer and it sprang into a cherry tree on the deer’s head.

For 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin, though, it was no fun at all.

As Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper found out, he often had chest pains, and was coughing up blood.

An X-Ray showed a new growth in his lung, and doctors were certain it was a cancerous one.

Fortunately, when they dissected Artyom’s chest, it was decided to cut out a small piece first, and to carry out an express biopsy test. The doctor made an incision in the lung and saw… a fir tree.

This was so weird I had to share it.

How the Hell did that happen?

I for one hope he got to keep the tree. And can use it to make a living winning bar bets.

How the Hell did that happen?

Apparently he breathed in a seed from a pine cone and it germinated in his lungs without light? Perhaps it got the glucose it needs to survive from his own bloodstream so it didn't need light for photosynthesis?
Perhaps there is a new breed of parasitic evergreen tree that erupt from the hapless hosts chests like a creature from alien!

I for one hope he got to keep the tree. And can use it to make a living winning bar bets.
AFAIK it was preserved along with the lung tissue. And they theorized that he inhaled a bud.

Yay for carnivorous plants! :D

Yay for carnivorous plants! :D

Striking back at the Lumberjack.

Thats a firly weird yet treemendous story.

Thats a firly weird yet treemendous story.

It's been a while since a post made me feel physical pain. Damn you!

It's been a while since a post made me feel physical pain. Damn you!

Quit barking about laughing to hard. Wood you be laughing if you were this guy?

It's been a while since a post made me feel physical pain. Damn you!

Yay! Physical pain! ^_^

Yay! Physical pain! ^_^
Sadist. :mad:

I bet he had fresh breath

Yay, another highly unlikely thing to become worried about! I'll add that to my list between "candiru attack" and "sneezing my eyeballs out."

Quit barking about laughing to hard. Wood you be laughing if you were this guy?

He certainly wouldn't, but at least the doctors got to the root of the problem.

"It might be a lumber."

"Eets naught a lumbah."

That's horiffic.

At least he'd have nice fresh breath.

EDIT: I bet he had fresh breath

You win, I lose. Damn, should read thread.

Yay, another highly unlikely thing to become worried about! I'll add that to my list between "candiru attack" and "sneezing my eyeballs out."

Here's another for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wTON7rDHw

You're welcome. :)

Jejejeje! Ay. B-tan, thanks for posting this.

Me ha hecho reír y lo necesitaba.:)

J
Me ha hecho reír y lo necesitaba.:)

I'm usually good for a laugh or a shoulder to cry on, you know that :)

I'm usually good for a laugh or a shoulder to cry on, you know that :)

Yup, I know. :)

Reminds me of childhood stories about why you shouldn't swallow apple pips.

Reminds me of childhood stories about why you shouldn't swallow apple pips.

Not a serious concern. In case of germination, all one needs to do is swallow a beaver.

http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-16/Fir_tree_man_shocks_doctors.html



This was so weird I had to share it.

Shows you the power of life. Wow a tree inside a human. Very strange.

Not a serious concern. In case of germination, all one needs to do is swallow a beaver.
Problem being, he dams up your lower intestine...

Not a serious concern. In case of germination, all one needs to do is swallow a beaver.

I kow an old lady who swallowed a fly.

Problem being, he dams up your lower intestine...

Eh, one beaver. He can't live forever. Just make sure you don't swallow a breeding pair, and drink lots of water for a few decades.

A bit of constipation is certainly preferable to trying to swallow a fur hunter with his shotgun, a park ranger, half a dozen greenies, and the television media in a helicopter.

Can we all cut these tree puns short cos I'm stumped if I can make up any more. They're bloody awfell!

Reminds me of childhood stories about why you shouldn't swallow apple pips.

Yeh. I used to eat the full apple (pips and stalk and all) until I heard that! And then there's that living tree guy. What's the story with that? What'll happen next, we'll find the Easter bunny and tinkerbell are really homeless and living under a tree stump!

A tree can't grow without light! It's a result of dark magical rituals performed by the servants of Dark Lord Conifer.

Can we all cut these tree puns short cos I'm stumped if I can make up any more. They're bloody awfell!




Seriously.. If we stop you'll just be pining for them..

Not a serious concern. In case of germination, all one needs to do is swallow a beaver.

??? but what if she... oh... that kind... sorry...

http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-16/Fir_tree_man_shocks_doctors.html



This was so weird I had to share it.

although it might break the TOS... I really, really wanna see the Pics!

Edit: eww.... found pics... that is... disgusting... :(

edit: if you want to see it (since I don't know if it consitutes 'Graphic' pics) let me know and I'll TG the addy to you.

although it might break the TOS... I really, really wanna see the Pics!

Edit: eww.... found pics... that is... disgusting... :(

edit: if you want to see it (since I don't know if it consitutes 'Graphic' pics) let me know and I'll TG the addy to you.

Consider this a request, I suppose.

although it might break the TOS... I really, really wanna see the Pics!

Edit: eww.... found pics... that is... disgusting... :(

edit: if you want to see it (since I don't know if it consitutes 'Graphic' pics) let me know and I'll TG the addy to you.

Hey, I want to see how bad Nightmare Fuel it is.

Hey, I want to see how bad Nightmare Fuel it is.

Consider this a request, I suppose.

TG'ed

Just worred about the 'graphic' nature of the pic. after all, it is a disected lung...

TG'ed

Just worred about the 'graphic' nature of the pic. after all, it is a disected lung...

Strange.

The comments on that article make a few good points, it must be said.

ok.. here's the pic...
http://www.mosnews.com/photos/79/979_400x300.jpg

Kewll... it works... :p

and the addy with the article (http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/).

cm. fir tree removed from patient’s lung
13 Apr, 11:35 PM

A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing blood.

The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports.

Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.

“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.

The five-centimeter branch was removed from the patient’s body.

“They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease,” Sidorkin says.

“It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me.”

It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.

Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study.


I kinda agree with one comment... were are the roots?

*looks at pic* How do you get something that big inside your lung and not die? This so-called "Russian" is clearly a space alien. Get 'im!!!

ok.. here's the pic...
Image snip


http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m159/MPinski/mindfuck.jpg

*snip comment pic*

Um, the first pic IS gross, and being "gory" is against the TOS.
JuNii quite rightly put it in a "spoiler" box, and you should do the same.
Or are you going to wait for a mod to tell you?

Um, the first pic IS gross, and being "gory" is against the TOS.
JuNii quite rightly put it in a "spoiler" box, and you should do the same.
Or are you going to wait for a mod to tell you?

Fixed. My bad.

*looks at pic* creepy! there's no WAY he could have inhaled that without noticing, it's just way too big! I mean, you'd have to blind, stinking dru-

*looks at location of story*

Ah. Never mind.

ok.. here's the pic...
http://www.mosnews.com/photos/79/979_400x300.jpg

Kewll... it works... :p

and the addy with the article (http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/).



I kinda agree with one comment... were are the roots?

This is what happens when Russian scientists spend too much time watching The Lord of the Rings and Aliens in marathon sessions.

This is what happens when Russian scientists spend too much time watching The Lord of the Rings and Aliens in marathon sessions.

They needed to watch The Lord of the Rings to find out how to combat the Sauron admin, they thought that if they could create the Ents, they might be able to take out his the British Labor Party.

Quit barking about laughing to hard. Wood you be laughing if you were this guy?

Hey, leaf him alone. The last thing we need is fir negative feelings to take root because you wooden't stop barking all over the place.

Hey, leaf him alone. The last thing we need is fir negative feelings to take root because you wooden't stop barking all over the place.

Quite being a pine in the ass.

Quite being a pine in the ass.

Are you breathing easier now, with that off your chest?

After tl;dr'ing the whole thread, but knowing what would emerge:

[insert tree pun here]

Oh, and on-topic: What the hell?

Thayat's bout all ah haff tuh say bout thayat.

doesnt a plant need light to grow?

*looks at pic* How do you get something that big inside your lung and not die? This so-called "Russian" is clearly a space alien. Get 'im!!!

... after Chernobyl? who knows what long term effects that much radiation would have on plant life...

errr... the image of triffids just popped into my head... :eek:

doesnt a plant need light to grow?

generally? plants no. moss can grow in caves where sunlight doesn't reach.

that thing? where are the roots?

that thing? where are the roots?
does it need them? there would be blood flow probably directly to the base of the. . .tree? .. .

does it need them? there would be blood flow probably directly to the base of the. . .tree? .. .

... the term Abnormal Growth just took a weird turn in my head...