He had a what growing where??? – IOTW Report

He had a what growing where???

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Doctors discovered snail growing in boy’s elbow.

An 11-year-old boy cut up his elbow when he slipped and fell into a tidepool at a local beach. His parents fixed him up but decided to take him to a hospital when the wound began to look worse.

Dr. Albert Khait, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Loma Linda University, was surprised to find that a sea snail had hatched inside a skin abscess in the elbow wound and was still alive.  MORE

7 Comments on He had a what growing where???

  1. I guess that old nursery rhyme was more literal than we knew.

    What are little boys made of, made of?
    What are little boys made of?
    “Snaps and snails, and puppy-dogs’ tails;
    And that’s what little boys are made of.”

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