{"id":3337,"date":"2010-08-12T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T16:05:48","slug":"man-has-pine-tree-growing-in-lung-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Man Has Pine Tree Growing In Lung (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, as I’ve mentioned before, the story about the Russian who supposedly has a pine tree growing in his lung<\/a> I posted in April last year has been by far the most popular on this blog. Today, though, I started getting a lot of hits again. I think this new news story is why<\/del>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one is from Massachusetts and appears to have medical backing – perhaps I was wrong to be sceptical of the Russian guy who’d chosen a pine tree for his shrubbery!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, the guy in the news report makes it clear his seed had sprouted about half an inch – you could have built a tree house in the Russian one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news story (which contains a video interview with Ron Sveden, the patient involved) doesn’t show the seed – again, unlike the Russians, who appeared to have a film crew in the operating theatre judging from some of the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Sveden is making a recovery, which is obviously the most important thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDIT 1\/6\/2011:<\/strong> A-ha! A reader from New York tells me that this was the subject of an episode of Grey’s Anatomy (Season 7, Episode 21)<\/a>, which was recently shown in the US. The same episode is on Sky TV tonight, so it’ll be interesting to see if it triggers many more UK hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n