Man operates on his own throat with knife

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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.

Wilde has previously suffered from throat cancer, which caused breathing problems when his air passages became so swollen that they wouldn't let air through. Wilder says he thinks the same thing happened this time.

Doctors say that they expect Wilder to make a full recovery from his throat-cutting experiment, and that once the wound heals he shouldn't suffer any adverse effects.
Source: metro.co.uk