Random Most Horrifying Things Found Living Inside People (19 items)

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  (#14) A Pea Plant Was Growing Inside This Man's Lung

  In August 2010, Ron Sveden of Massachusetts was rushed to the hospital after his lung collapsed. He had been battling emphysema for months when his lung gave out. He assumed he would have a cancer diagnosis after he had some x-rays done, but what was actually growing in his lung wasn't a tumor - it was a pea plant. Mr. Sveden said the plant was about half an inch in size. 
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  (#7) A Fish Swam Up 14 Year-Old's Urethra

  I'm sure you've heard of that little fish (the candirú) that will swim into your urethra if you ever whip it out in the Amazon. It's real - and a real good reason to never whip it out in the Amazon. But there's another, related story that you should know. Think of it as a cautionary tale about handling exotic pets.

  In India, a 14 year-old-boy went to the hospital complaining of pain in his bladder and an inability to urinate. The doctors did an ultrasound and discovered an object in the bladder, blocking his urethra. The boy was taken to surgery where the doctors cut him open. Can you guess what they found?

  The fish was 2 cm long and lodged all the way up inside his bladder. And here comes the best part. When asked how it got there, this was the boy's answer:

  While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. While he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms.

  After surgery, the boy was released, but taken to psychiatric counseling.
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  (#15) A Raccoon Worm Was Living In This Man's Retina

  In 2010, John Matthews of Cedar Rapids, IA, thought he was going blind. When he went to specialists, they discovered a raccoon worm was living in his retina. Even though the parasite was tiny - only 1/20 of an inch long - it was wreaking havoc on Matthew's eye. It was moving and eating the retina. Doctors ultimately had to use a special laser to kill the devious parasite. 
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  (#2) A Woman's Mouth Was Impregnated By Squid Sperm

  Many people have hang-ups about eating "raw" seafood. Whether for health reasons or some other aversion, to each his or her own. But one 63 year-old woman got something else disgusting when she ate some partially cooked squid in South Korea in June 2012. As she bit into a part of the delicious dish - which still had its organs intact - she felt a "pricking and foreign-body sensation" in her mouth. She spat it out.

  But she was too late. Pods of squid semen had already shot into her mouth, impregnating the mucous membranes of her tongue, cheek, and gums. Doctors later removed the "twelve small, white spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms" called spermatophores and also identified a sperm sack. They didn't have eyes or little baby tentacles or anything, but still, the products of animal sperm were living inside her mouth.

  This wasn't the first case of this happening, either. In December 2011, another poor sap got this report from the doctor: The sperm bags of the squid had thrust into the squamous epithelium (inner lining) of the patient's hard palate (roof of the mouth). The remaining part of the raw squid consisted of the testis and the sperm bags.
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  (#19) A Spider Was Living In This Woman's Ear

  In August 2012, a Chinese woman went to the doctor after experiencing a week of having a very itchy ear. When she got to Changsha Central Hospital of Otolaryngology, doctors found a creepy looking spider nesting in her ear. Doctors were afraid if they tried to grab the spider it would instinctively burrow, so they used a saline solution to flush out the eight-legged squatter. 
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  (#17) A Live Fish Was Found In A 12-Year-Old Boy's Lung

  Kids are prone to accidentally eating bugs and dirt after playing, but what about fish? In June 2012, 12-year-old Anil Barela accidentally swallowed a nine-centimeter fish while playing around in the river in India's Khargone district. The fish was still alive and flopping about when doctors performed a bronchoscopy. The fish was surgically removed and presumably died during the operation. 

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