U.S. teacher "has pea plant growing in lungs"

A man who who went to hospital with breathing troubles was found to have a pea plant growing in his lung. Ron Sveden, 75, had suffered for several months with short breath before being given an X-ray in May, WHDH reports. The retired teacher from Brewster, Massachussts feared that a grainy spot on the image showed a cancerous growth, but it was later found to be a 12mm pea plant.

Sveden said: "I was told I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted.

"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."

He added: "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."


/Digital Spy/