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Old 12-11-2018, 11:19 PM   #1
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Dec 12th, 2018: A Red Thing

What the hell is that? A piece of plant root? Something from the ocean like coral? Maybe some sort of deep sea creature.
Or could it have come from outer space?



Nope, it’s a clot, a blood clot, coughed up by a living breathing human who survived.

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It’s a completely intact, six-inch-wide clot of human blood in the exact shape of the right bronchial tree, one of the two key tubular networks that ferry air to and from the lungs. And it was coughed up in one piece.

The clot is beautiful, and it’s also kind of gross. The tweet received a slew of replies from those frightened that the photo showed an actual coughed-up lung, which is about as likely to happen as your brain falling out of your butt. But even the doctors who treated the 36-year-old man who produced the clot aren’t entirely sure how it could have emerged without breaking.
36 year old admitted for an aggressive end-stage heart failure? Oh, CA, nevermind.

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In Wieselthaler’s case, blood eventually broke out of his patient’s pulmonary network into the lower right lung, heading directly for the bronchial tree. After days of coughing up much smaller clots, Wieselthaler’s patient bore down on a longer, deeper cough and, relieved, spit out a large, oddly shaped clot, folded in on itself. Once Wieselthaler and his team carefully unfurled the bundle and laid it out, they found that the architecture of the airways had been retained so perfectly that they were able to identify it as the right bronchial tree based solely on the number of branches and their alignment.
“We were astonished,” Wieselthaler says. “It’s a curiosity you can’t imagine—I mean, this is very, very, very rare.”
Don't know if that's good or bad?

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Old 12-12-2018, 04:24 AM   #2
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Would have been even more impressive if it had come out with a sneeze.
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Old 12-12-2018, 12:20 PM   #3
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I knew it would be that when I saw the headline....

It is pretty, but it definitely gives me the willies, knowing what it is.
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Old 12-12-2018, 12:22 PM   #4
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Don't know if that's good or bad?
Good that he got it out; at least he could breathe a bit easier in the short time he had left. Bad that it existed in the first place. Interesting that it remained intact.
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Old 12-12-2018, 12:34 PM   #5
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Oh man, that guy is so sick. Clots are supposed to be the color of dried blood, like the very ends of that thing. For it to be that thick and that red... he's got Jell-O for blood.

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Ah, there it is. He's like 1,000 pounds and nearly dead.
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Old 12-12-2018, 05:05 PM   #6
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Old 12-12-2018, 05:17 PM   #7
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Nope, it’s a clot, a blood clot, coughed up by a living breathing human who survived.
He survived coughing this up, but only for a week after.
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Old 12-12-2018, 09:56 PM   #8
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Yeah, but didn't die from coughing it up, he had other... um, issues.
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