This is gross, but cute. But gross.
Four year-old Paul Franklin from California (center), got an "owie" when he fell and cut his knee on a rock during a family vacation to the beach, reported the Orange Country Register.
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When his mom, Rachel Franklin, removed the bandage she saw this:
The knee was a mess, with a large pus pocket and, behind it, black and necrotic-looking tissue. Gangrene, she told herself, preparing to rush her son to the emergency room.
Against the doctor's advice, Rachel decided to squeeze the wound to drain it. She squeezed and tugged, and a tiny black snail popped out of her son's knee. A living baby sea snail.
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Paul's father, Ken Franklin, thinks that an egg might have been forced into Paul's knee when he fell on the rock. The egg gestated inside the knee and the snail was born.
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