A man coughed up an intact blood clot shaped like a lung passage.

[WhoTurgled]

the more I think about this the more terrifying it is

 

[julia crawford]

Damn that's big.

 

[Lord Error]

I have to admit I became slightly lightheaded just imagining the process of myself caughing up that thing, seeing it come out of my mouth, and plopping down on the floor. To those who think that this guy must have felt great after caughing this up, I honestly think that he must have been absolutely petrified.

 

[Deleted member 13798]

I have to admit I became slightly lightheaded just imagining the process of myself caughing up that thing, seeing it come out of my mouth, and plopping down on the floor. To those who think that this guy must have felt great after caughing this up, I honestly think that he must have been absolutely petrified.

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If he was indeed in end-stage heart-failure I doubt he was thinking much at all about it, I would imagine he was shutting down in general since he died shortly afterwards.
Is he was cognizant though, that would be an absolutely horrifying thing to see. That image makes me extremely queasy.

 

[Greigor the FellHand]

that must of been beyond painful

 

[Doggg]

I was not prepared to see that.

 

[Lord Error]

If he was indeed in end-stage heart-failure I doubt he was thinking much at all about it, I would imagine he was shutting down in general since he died shortly afterwards.
Is he was cognizant though, that would be an absolutely horrifying thing to see. That image makes me extremely queasy.

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I read he died a week later. That's quite a long time, and with heart failure I assumed he'd stay awake and aware up until very close to the moment of death.

 

[Zackat]

My Dad is a doctor. When I showed him this he was amazed.

 

[DrFunk]

Yeesh

 

[Mammoth Jones]

 

[Acquiesc3]

Holy shit the same thing happened to my uncle. Said it was almost the size of a fist.

 

[N.Domixis]

Oh god(I'm not religious) I cringed.

 

[Zackat]

That is actually fucking INSANE. I'm incredibly fascinated. What the fuck is in his blood to make it clot to that extent??

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They think he had such high fibrinogen levels in his blood, essentially the main "fiber" of a clot, that it built up like that in his lung. I've seen some high fibrinogen levels before but this must have been absurd.

 

[infinitebento]

the human body is so fascinating

 

[Deleted member 13798]

I read he died a week later. That's quite a long time, and with heart failure I assumed he'd stay awake and aware up until very close to the moment of death.

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Oh shit. That's awful.

 

[Deleted member 22750]

that is disturbing to say the least

 

[Rigbones]

Wait so it's ok to just waltz into Etcetera posting about things that come out of dying people? How do I delete someone else's post

 

[Ensirius]

That's... Unsettling.

 

[-JD-]

It's beautiful. Can I bid on it?

 

[maxxpower]

They think he had such high fibrinogen levels in his blood, essentially the main "fiber" of a clot, that it built up like that in his lung. I've seen some high fibrinogen levels before but this must have been absurd.

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Is that a congenital issue?

 

[Belmont]

It was beautiful until I saw that he died.

Now it's just a horrific monument to one man's demise.

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It's sad thinking of living your whole life and then dying and the most remarkable thing about you was the shit you coughed up when you died.