We'd Take Christmas Over Cancer Any Day

After complaining about chest pains and coughing up blood, 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin went to the hospital only to discover that a five-centimeter fir tree had sprouted in his lung.

At first, doctors suspected cancer when they found what looked to be a tumor in the x-ray.  Mid-biopsy, they were shocked to see green needles in the cut.

Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center, said “I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look.”

Unbelievably, the branch is said to have sprouted after he inhaled a seed.   Sidorkin told reporters, “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.”

A piece of lung with the fir tree has been preserved for further study.  Yikes!