Remember believing that swallowing watermelon seeds would result in a sprouted watermelon plant inside your belly? Well it happend to guy, sorta’. Ron Sveden was rushed to the hospital for a collapsed lung, but it turned out to be a sprouted pea plant.
Doctors feared the worst when Ron Sveden, already suffering from emphysema, was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, coughing with a collapsed left lung and pneumonia. But after multiple biopsies, doctors discovered not a tumor — but a pea seed germinating inside Sveden’s collapsed lung.
They removed the sprout, about a half of an inch tall, and Sveden has recovered.
“I must have ate something and it went down the wrong way, that’s all they could tell,” Sveden said in a telephone interview today. “It was too big to get through” from coughing.