Man has sprouting pea in lung

A 75 year old man from Brewster, Massachusetts in the USA got a shock surprise after he was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung, Ron Sveden feared the worst, he had been battling emphysema for months when his condition worsened, and he was preparing himself for the news that he had cancer.

However after multiple biopsies, doctors diagnosed that it was not a tumour on his collapsed lung but instead a pea which had sprouted which was about half an inch tall much to Sveden. The former teacher, had seen his health deteriorate recently was relieved at the news, after all he was suffering from emphysema.

Ron Sveden’s pulmonologist, who practices out of a private office in Hyannis, said: “He thought he was going to have lung cancer, and this would have been his last six months, but instead he has this new lease on life. It’s not often that things end so happy like this”.

Ron Sveden is not recovering well at home has been joking about the whole incident, stating One of the first meals I had in the hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them. Whether this would have gone full-term and I’d be working for the Jolly Green Giant, I don’t know. I think the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn’t the cancer”.

Doctors believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, however presume it must have ‘gone down the wrong way’ to get stuck in his lung and sprouted.

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