Subject: Re: Someone please explain this?!

From: [email-masked] (Willaim H. Reid)
Date: 12 Jan 1996 03:46:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Harry
Boswell) wrote:

> I read this article in my local paper - the article is datelined Stockton, CA.
> I'll leave out the girl's name:
> 
> "{16-year-old girl} will breathe more comfortably this holiday season now that
> a one-inch sprig of fir tree is gone from her right lung.
>   And the 16-year-old won't inhale too deeply around CHristmas trees.  Her
> family thinks she inhaled the bit of Yule cheer as a toddler."
> 
> The aricle goes on to say that as toddler, she suffered a choking fit near
> the family's Christmas tree, and during the 15 years since she suffered from
> shortness of breath, coughing fits, and bad breath.  Last year, she went to
> see Dr. Isam Felahy, who examined her expecting to find a birth defect.
> Instead, he found the fir sprig and removed it.  Now, here's what I don't
> understand - the sprig was still green!  How did it stay green for 15 years?
> Sure it had a moist environment, but shouldn't it have needed light?
> 
> --
> Harry Boswell                 [email-masked]  
> Home Page:  http://www2.netdoor.com/~hboswell

She spent a lot of time on the beach at Bimini I was told. Any kid with a
flashlight knows light will penetrate flesh a little. Do you suppose it
had growth rings?
Bill Reid

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From: [email-masked] (Harry Boswell)
Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:19:41 GMT