tree growing in lung

Ron Sveden was a retired teacher from Brewster, Massachusetts in the USA was very surprised to discover that what he thought was a tumor  growing in his lung was actually a plant that had sprouted from an inhaled pea. 75-year old Sveden said he was told the pea seed had split and sprouted in his lung. It was about half an inch long which is very big. Sveden had been short of breath for several months with  emphysema, one of a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, when he took a turn for the worse. He said he was coughing a lot and feeling listless, so his wife Nancy called 911 and he was rushed to hospital where doctors took X-rays and found that his left lung had collapsed and showing a grainy spot on X-ray.The doctors followed two more weeks of tests, and Sveden had prepared himself for a diagnosis of lung cancer, but all the tests were negative for cancer. Then one doctor discovered he had a plant growing in his lung, during the surgery and was removed. He healed perfectly and found it very humorous that it was tree and not cancer.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMH0kibzl0

fitness testing results

my goals are to be more flexible. 2 testing methods are doing the splits and measuring how low you can get and doing the backwards bridge. Many workouts are to stretch a lot after workouts to help me achieve this goal

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interim

Hi Mom and Dad!
This is my interim report for the Human Kinetics Coop.

So far, the highlights for me have been: most of the fieldtrips were really fun i enjoyed rock climbing alot


I am the most proud of:I am proud of the amount of things we learned about the heart because i never knew any of those things. 


The most interesting things I have learned about are: how the heart works and how it pumps blood faster 


An example of when I really pushed myself in SuperFit is:beep test and the hill run we did as a class


I could make improvements in:not getting distracted 


I am really looking forward to: more fieldtrips 


The Basics - WORK HABITS:

Attendance (classes missed and why) - i missed some because of soccer and one because of my injury

Participation in field trips (woo kim, grouse grind, rock climbing) - i went to them all now 

Lates (how many & reasons) - i was late before but now i improved 

Preparedness for class (gym strip &/or supplies) - always have it

Class time management (are you using your class time to complete your work?  engaged in class discussion? participating? following along? doing your best? or talking too much? ) -i am well at class management and finish most of the stuff in class

Blog assignment completion - (out of 8 assignments) Comments? i did all of them 

Self evaluation of work habits for each class in coop - G/S/N : G

grouse grind

the last time I went to the grouse grind was a year ago with my soccer team. It was very difficult because it is an up hill incline all the way. It was tough but I finished it less than 45 mins. . Half way I was starting to feel it in my legs a lot more and my body temp was rising.  My breathing rate was high at the end but it was not that bad because I kept one pace through out the grind. It was aerobic because my heart rate was increasing and was high endurance activity. I was also around zone 4 at the end.

Vo2 max

my vo2 level according to my beep test is 58.0

heart disection

external observation:I never really saw the heart that much but from what I did see it was kind of bloody from the outside and looked like raw meat.

internal observation:
by looking at pictures the heart looked diff than the outside because of all the atriums .The heart looks like it will be soft and mushy from the inside.

 QUESTIONS:

1) The most surprising thing for me was how different it was than I imagined it to be because i thought it would be much more like a soft heart but it looked like a piece of raw meat
2) the atria only has one job to collect and squeeze blood into the ventricles. The ventricles are larger because they need to contract the blood.
3) The left ventricle pumps blood to the entire body while the right only pumps blood to the lungs.
4) The left AV Valves function is to close when the left ventricle contracts to prevent it from back flowing the blood from the left atrium and right AV valves function is to close when the right ventricle contracts. Then the blood from the ventricles can go out of the heart and into the blood vessels. Mitral and tricuspid valves open when the ventricles relax and let blood enter the ventricles from the atria.