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.

Smoking the Bud'

I've heard of "Fir Pie"...but "Fir Lung"...never!

WOW!

Ouch!



Quick no body breath!

wow...

i've been reading quite a bit about this...and it seems it's most likely a hoax.

first, they removed a WAY too large section of lung, if that's what the tissue is supposed to be. the plant also seems too large, as well as green...which it couldn't be if it were not in sunlight.

there's also issues with the source. apparently, it's not a real newspaper, and the hospital's only online reference is in relation to THIS story...

or then again, maybe there IS a reference, and i just can't read russian.

either way, i'm skeptical.

Yes it does Seem very Strange.

i call shenanigans.

If it's in the tabloids it must be true. I'll look for the official publication at the grocery store checkout.