My mother told me not to eat the watermelon seeds!!

I remember growing up as a child my mother would always tell me, don’t eat the watermelon seeds or a watermelon will grow in your belly. As a young child I use to believe this, of course. We always believe what our parents tell us.

Funny because parents lie A LOT to kids, and about kinda big things, like Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny! But they do it because society has encouraged it. I would say they do it because they love you, but they could tell you the truth and it wouldn’t change it either way. I personally do not want to lie to my kid and tell him that a fat white man breaks into everyone’s house once a year and leaves a gift under good kid’s trees. So when my kid goes to school the next day and another kids got a gift 10X better from Santa just cuz their parents make more. NO…I don’t think so. And kids compare gifts…trust me…I remember it!

But I stray from my point. I am checking my email today, which I do every morning; I get tons of news articles, because it is in my job description to look through news articles for references for our company, any of our partner companies or our clients. If it is good, then I have to let people know. Fun job right! I use to do just Marketing coordinating, but I must admit, I like the online side more.

ANYWHO! I open up an email from my best friend, she always sends me any article that I may think would be interesting or funny or whatever, we probably send each other about 5-10 articles a-day (yes the world is that twisted) and I usually don’t blog about 99% of the….but the one I got this morning…OMG. If you want to check it out, the link is http://tinyurl.com/c8vrnx. BUT I must warn you, there is an image when you open this up, and it is not a pretty sight, if you have a weak stomach. I thought it was kinda cool, but WOW some people may not enjoy it.

So the article was about a young guy (he was only 28…not much older than me at all) in Russia (Izhevsk, Russia) who went to the doctor complaining about his lung hurting and he was coughing up blood. As anyone would think…CANCER, and no one wants cancer. So the guy went into the doctor to see what was wrong. I can image how I would reach, because I am a little bit of a hypochondriac. So the doctor did the logical thing, took the guy in for an x-ray to see what the heck was wrong. Well they found a “tumor” in his lung. So they did a biopsy to see if it was cancer or not. They get the guy into the surgery room and put him under. They cut into the guy’s longs and HOLY COW they saw GREEN NEEDLES!!! It was a 5” branch/tree growing in the guy’s lung!!! You could ask, well maybe it wasn’t growing, maybe the guy swallowed it or something, but

A) Who (over the age of 5) would swallow a tree branch
B) 5” is too large to be swallowed or inhaled into the LUNG….stomach of course is different.

So this guy must have breathed in a in a seed or something and it must have started to grow inside his lung. That is so freaky right. It must have spread out, grown roots and lived inside this guys lungs for a hot minute.

Now it is really scary to think what would of happened if he had not gone to the doctor (but obviously he would have because he was coughing up blood from the needles poking into him). How big do you think the tree could have gotten? And don’t trees need light to grow? Isn’t sun light very important? I am just amazed and of course now a little freaked out.

Cuz like my mother use to tell me, don’t eat the seeds, they will grow in your stomach. That saying now gives me more pause then it ever has before. I know stomach…not an issue, all the acid and stuff, no way. BUT now with an actual proven case of a tree growing in the lung…very scary!!! I think I would really freak out if something like that happened to me. I already have a fear of something crawling into my mouth, nose or ear while I am asleep and laying eggs or biting me and laying eggs under my skin. NOW I have to add to my list, fear of plants growing inside my lungs. OMG, I would really die!