Man Operates On His Own Throat With Steak Knife

A man who was suffering breathing difficulties took medical matters into his own hands in a rather extreme way – by performing a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife.

Steve Wilder, of Omaha, Nebraska, woke in the night struggling to breathe. Fearing that he was about to die, and not believing that an ambulance would reach him in time, he took the obvious course of action – he went to the kitchen and picked up a steak knife.

He used the knife to cut a hole in his throat, allowing air into his lungs.

Source: Metro