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[Escape Goat]

Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy

Posted: May 9, 2008 08:10 AM

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.

 

[bggrthnjsus]

that is pretty high up there on the badassery scale

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Yeah, pretty awesome, especially if he's not trained. Medical personnel are trained to use anything for tracheotomy in an emergency though, including Bic pens.

 

[SUPREME1]

*bows down*

 

[PjotrStroganov]

Yeah, pretty awesome, especially if he's not trained. Medical personnel are trained to use anything for tracheotomy in an emergency though, including Bic pens.

Under the Adams apple right?

 

[Dark Octave]

You gotta do what the hell you gotta do.

 

[Ripclawe]

..yeah.. I would be dead.

Steve Wilder of Omaha, Neb., shows on Friday, May 9, 2008, the steak knife he used to perform a self-tracheotomy at his home. Wilder awoke the night of April 30, 2008 and felt himself suffocating. His wife, Cora, called an ambulance, but fearing it would not arrive in time, he bolted for the kitchen, picked up a steak knife and made a quarter-inch incision. Wilder says he did the same thing to himself two years ago.
(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

 

[bjork]

holy shit. That's studly.

 

[MisterHero]

I find this news is tough to swallow

 

[Screaming_Gremlin]

picked up a steak knife and made a quarter-inch incision. Wilder says he did the same thing to himself two years ago.
(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Jebus...

 

[Dali]

Fox should have an old man battle royale reality show or something. The first season can have this guy, the old man that strangled the rabid bobcat, the old man that beat up his mugger, and just for the added drama throw in either the Austrian or Australian daughter-fucker. This shit would be bigger than Survivor and Real World combined.

 

[Femmeworth]

What a badass.

 

[deadbeef]

There needs to be a bad-ass battle royale. Is this more bad ass than the guy pinned by a boulder that cut his own arm off with a knife? You decide!

 

[RiskyChris]

I just earned a new life skill.

Life Expectancy + 0.005 years