Think of all the money he saved!
Man that would take some stones to do that.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080509/D90HQA681.html

Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder said he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn’t breath.

Wilder said he didn’t call 911 because he didn’t think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old says, he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in.

Wilder suffered from throat cancer and related breathing problems several years ago. About that time, he had an episode where he couldn’t breath because his air passages swelled shut. He said that’s what happened this time around.

Doctors don’t expect Wilder to suffer any adverse affects from the tracheotomy once it’s healed.

I read: ‘Obama uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy’ there for a second or 2….

Is there anything that guy can’t do?

That’s pretty hardcore, slicing a hole in your own throat with a steak knife.

Renquist - 11 May 2008 07:54 AM

That’s pretty hardcore, slicing a hole in your own throat with a steak knife.

Ren, you’re the pub-dweller - this good for a pint?

Robin Bobcat - 11 May 2008 01:20 PM

Renquist - 11 May 2008 07:54 AM

That’s pretty hardcore, slicing a hole in your own throat with a steak knife.

Ren, you’re the pub-dweller - this good for a pint?

Confucius once say: Man who cut hole in throat to breathe should put a band-aid over it before drinking his many free pints.

Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy

I can’t help but think that’s there’s a joke here somewhere that I’m missing out on making.

I’m a nurse but would be afraid to do this to another person afraid they would sue me because it is “outside my scope of practice”.  I can a man doing this because a lot of people know a lot on how to manage their own illness, although I do admit this was brave of him.  What we will do to survive, like that guy who cut his own leg off to get out from under a boulder

I suppose if you’re, you know, dying because your throat has shut, cutting a hole to breathe is pretty easy.

Also pretty easy to cock up I should imagine, given how the neck is jam-packed with important bits. Most people would probably have panicked and sliced something open if they tried this. Some seriously brass balls to have the presence of mind to do it carefully.

Apparently, this is the second time he’s done one on himself.

*In the pub*

“...so I say ‘Rectum? I damn near killed him!‘ Oh…oh God…throat closing up…where’s my bowie knife?“

*SLICE*

“GRAAAAA!!!!“

*In a fervour of testoserone he headbutts a horse*