Does this mean a watermelon can grow in your stomach?

[pokerfan]

My mom was right!

Pea plant grows inside man's lung

A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.

Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.

He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed the growth in his lung.

Doctors believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, but it "went down the wrong way" and sprouted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050

[Maraya1969]

1. It's amazing that he actually swallowed a pea that was obviously

not cooked and did not choke on it.

[Lance_Boyle]

well he clearly didn't swallow it

same thing happened not too long ago to a guy who docs thought from x-ray had a mass in his lung - it was a small tree (well, a seedling). Nothing that requires photosynthesis can survive in a lung, but a seed can and will sprout there.

[hyphenate]

2. Funny

I came over to post the same article, only from a different source. GMTA!

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197623.php

[Old Troop]

3. OK now I'm totally creeped out!

[murielm99]

4. I thought that moms told children that

plants would sprout in ears that were not cleaned often enough.