Man Survives a Soccer Ball Sized Tumor - With Tentacles.
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — When Josh Abken told his doctor he was having persistent back pain about a year ago, the doctor took an x-ray.
The Chico-area school vice principal said he was stunned to learn what was growing inside him.
“You think you got a serious muscle pull or something, [but] the doctor has that serious doctor face you see on TV,” Abken said. “They didn’t really know what was growing inside of me.”
They named it Gill: A soccer-ball size “alien” tumor that had become as solid as a rock and even had growing tentacles.
Abken and his family made shirts bearing the motto “Kill Gill,” based on the movie posters for the film “Kill Bill.”
The husband and father of two said doctors told him the giant tumor was beginning to put pressure on his heart, shove his lungs out of position and even squash his stomach downward. It apparently had been growing for at least a decade.
“My kids are pretty young, they knew Daddy had a big ‘owee,’” he said.
Thoracic surgeon Costanzo Di Perna was able to remove the tumor before it killed Abken, but required several hours of surgery before it was all gone.
“Trying to take out this large, calcified tumor, hard like a rock, created a difficult surgical experience,” Dr. Di Perna said.
Abken will continue to receive PET-CT scans to see if the tumor will return, but he has stayed cancer-free for about a year.
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Human words can't describe the look my face assumed after reading only the title.
What the fuck?
I thought the title meant his testicles were the size of soccer balls because of a tumor
Crysis 2 guerilla marketing.
First zerg larvae.
Let's hope I have just as much luck with mine :smile:
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They forgot to ask the guy if he still craves seafood, like crab. I bet he was a regular at the local Red Lobster.
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Its a smiley face! :smile:
[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;28135248]What kind of tentacles?[/QUOTE]
There are kinds of tentacles?
[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;28135248]What kind of tentacles?[/QUOTE]
Tentacle like growths.
That's a plotline for an anime or something right there.
Japanese tumors!
How does something the size of a soccer ball grow inside someone without killing them?
[QUOTE=Sourcream&onion;28137084]That's a plotline for an anime or something right there.[/QUOTE]
Well, japan already has octopus porn
[sp]Tentacles? Octopus? Get it? GET IT?[/sp]
You just know they're going to make a porno out of this story.
:gonk:
I wanted to see an actual picture of the tumor not the MRI.
[QUOTE=nigfops;28137648]How does something the size of a soccer ball grow inside someone without killing them?[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I've seen some weird stuff and heard about weirder. People have been known to stuff their own guts back into their bodies after suffering some pretty bad wounds.
In this guy's case, it doesn't sound like there was any actual damage, no internal bleeding or similar problem. Just this thing kept pushing and pushing on him from the inside. Most of that stuff is squishy and soft though, it can be stretched pretty far before you'd even notice.
Read the story Guts and you'll see what I mean.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;28138046]You just know they're going to make a porno out of this story.
:gonk:[/QUOTE]
They already have, the tumor was paying tribute.
My science teacher told the class about a tumor he had once. He was a wrestler in high school and he had a lot of muscle and shit but later he had pains and it turned out to be a football sized tumor. They had to give him a lot of morphine through a syringe in his neck which would make his heart beat like he was heavily exercising. He couldn't shit (or piss, I think) and he had the constant feeling of needing to take one. He also couldn't eat and he said from the amount of morphine he had, he had a hallucination of a plate of mashed potatoes and gravy floating across the room. When he was all better the doctors said that he was lucky to survive it, and if he wasn't as strong and healthy as he was from his wrestling, he most likely wouldn't have.
He's a great teacher too, and in my opinion the best teachers are the ones that share stories and teach well.
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