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01-12-2012, 09:28 PM
Check this out only if you haven't eaten lunch.
Every once in a while a story comes along that's so awesome and bizarre it's like attending a tea party with Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the March Hare... if they were played by Bjork, Udo Kier and Gary Busey. Such is the case of a UK woman who just saved her own life by coughing out a tumor.
"According to ABC's Medical Unit blog, 37-year-old Claire Osborn was just driving along on the wrong side of the road like a normal, everyday British person when she felt a tickling sensation at the back of her throat. The tickle escalated into a five minute full-on hacking fit that ended with her feeling something dislodge and fly out of her mouth. Upon examination, she discovered that it was a tiny strip of liver colored tissue, which she threw away. The next day, her son was with her when the coughing began anew, but this time, the tissue she coughed up was about an inch long and heart-shaped."
"Concerned that coughing up pieces of her own flesh might mean that there were some medical shenanigans afoot, Osborn took her hackings to her doctor, who performed a biopsy on the tissue. Turns out, she'd expectorated some metastatic adenocarcinoma, which is doctor language for "she spat up an aggressive, deadly cancer that probably originated at the back of her mouth." They told her she'd need chemotherapy and gave her 50% odds of surviving, but when they scanned her for remaining cancer cells, there were none to be found."
“The consultant turned round to me and said, ‘It appears you have coughed up your cancer. Congratulations,’” Osborn told the Daily Mail. “I was totally flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe a coughing fit had saved my life.”
Anyone reaching for those bottles of expectorants and cough syrups in a hasty hurry yet? ;)
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/01/11/u-k-mom-coughs-up-cancer/
http://jezebel.com/5875255/oh-my-fucking-god-this-woman-coughed-up-her-own-tumor
Every once in a while a story comes along that's so awesome and bizarre it's like attending a tea party with Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the March Hare... if they were played by Bjork, Udo Kier and Gary Busey. Such is the case of a UK woman who just saved her own life by coughing out a tumor.
"According to ABC's Medical Unit blog, 37-year-old Claire Osborn was just driving along on the wrong side of the road like a normal, everyday British person when she felt a tickling sensation at the back of her throat. The tickle escalated into a five minute full-on hacking fit that ended with her feeling something dislodge and fly out of her mouth. Upon examination, she discovered that it was a tiny strip of liver colored tissue, which she threw away. The next day, her son was with her when the coughing began anew, but this time, the tissue she coughed up was about an inch long and heart-shaped."
"Concerned that coughing up pieces of her own flesh might mean that there were some medical shenanigans afoot, Osborn took her hackings to her doctor, who performed a biopsy on the tissue. Turns out, she'd expectorated some metastatic adenocarcinoma, which is doctor language for "she spat up an aggressive, deadly cancer that probably originated at the back of her mouth." They told her she'd need chemotherapy and gave her 50% odds of surviving, but when they scanned her for remaining cancer cells, there were none to be found."
“The consultant turned round to me and said, ‘It appears you have coughed up your cancer. Congratulations,’” Osborn told the Daily Mail. “I was totally flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe a coughing fit had saved my life.”
Anyone reaching for those bottles of expectorants and cough syrups in a hasty hurry yet? ;)
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/01/11/u-k-mom-coughs-up-cancer/
http://jezebel.com/5875255/oh-my-fucking-god-this-woman-coughed-up-her-own-tumor