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Doctor finds plant growing inside man's lung

I read that earlier today and was thinking, if it was Cannabis growing in there would the person be constantly stonned :)
 
Probably wouldn't have gotten any larger without sunlight - that seems to be about the max sprout size a pea seedling would get from its germination boost alone. It's pretty good substrate in there, all things considered - moist, well aerated, no herbivores :D
 
SezMe said:
His wife says this indicates that "God has a sense of humor." Har, har.
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I saw that. Very funny. Can you imagine God thinking "Hmmm. Let's plant a pea in this guy's lung and watch him panic, thinking it's cancer. Ha ha hahahha!"

"Whoop, hey, what?"
"The guy doesn't think it's funny? He's cursing my name? Oh, well. To hell with him."
 
SezMe said:
His wife says this indicates that "God has a sense of humor." Har, har.
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Ah, yes, because:
“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.
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God needed to mess up Ron's lung, and could have just made a weak spot, but he thought a pea would be funnier.
 
Reminds me of when I was a kid, I was in a little country store. A guy was at the counter with a hayseed sprout hanging out of his mouth. I asked what he was chewing, and he said when he was a kid, he ate some grass, and it grew out of his mouth.

And I believed him. Not that I ever ate grass.
But, clover, was another matter.

Sorry. Carry on.
 
While I'd like to make jokes ("Ho ho ho, Green Giant!" :D), I'm not able to generate any good ones, so I'll go serious instead: Can someone answer a really dumb question for me? I know that the pea was almost certainly bigger than most infectious bodies (bacteria, etc.), but I'm still at a loss as to why the immune system didn't react to the pea sprout by attacking it. I'm not trying to say that peas are pathogens, mind you, I'm merely confused as to why the man's body didn't react to the pea as an invader.
 
ElMondoHummus said:
While I'd like to make jokes ("Ho ho ho, Green Giant!" :D), I'm not able to generate any good ones, so I'll go serious instead: Can someone answer a really dumb question for me? I know that the pea was almost certainly bigger than most infectious bodies (bacteria, etc.), but I'm still at a loss as to why the immune system didn't react to the pea sprout by attacking it. I'm not trying to say that peas are pathogens, mind you, I'm merely confused as to why the man's body didn't react to the pea as an invader.
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IANAD, but I don't think foreign objects in the lungs, at least the parts reachable to a pea, are dealt with by the immune system, they're moved up and out and away by the cilia, if it's small stuff caught in the mucus, or expelled by air, i.e. coughing, if it's larger objects.
 
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