We’ve heard the horror stories of odd things coming out of people’s bodies like worms or insects, but this is completely different because it actually belonged in the body.
We’re talking about a man who produced this 6-inch-wide branchlike piece of blood clot from his body.
It was the exact shape of a tree and was reportedly coughed up in a single piece.
A man coughed up a giant blood clot in the exact shape of the critical airway it had been blocking. Doctors aren't sure how it came out in one piece, writes @HaleySWeiss: https://t.co/rJMCmggQI7
What makes this even more incredible, is that it was a key “piece” of the human body that takes air to and from the lungs.
Even a nurse weighed in.
@TheAtlantic @haleysweiss as a nurse i’ve had someone literally shit into my hand and this is still the grossest thing i’ve ever seen in my life
This reaction was the general consensus.
@TheAtlantic @haleysweiss
Georg Wieselthaler, a transplant and pulmonary surgeon, said “We were astonished. It’s a curiosity you can’t imagine—I mean, this is very, very, very rare.”
