I just read this on bbc.co.uk
I mean fuck ! There was me thinking that I was having a bad day because of some servers that weren’t worrking as they should and we ran out of coffee filters and I read this???
It just kind of makes me feel all small and meaningless I guess…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3606845.stm
Wow! What an amazing thing that women did.
Although this but made me laugh -
She told her kids to call for help after she gave herself the caesarean?!
When I read this story the first time I thought the exact same thing. She had time for cocktails before slicing her belly open but not picking up the phone? 
Boy! THAT’S gonna leave a mark!
And I’m complaining about a broken toe. Jeez, I am such a wimp.
Well…
I don’t think there was a phone
I wonder how she avoided slicing her bladder or some other major internal organ, open? I watch ER. I know how easy it is to botch a C-Section. 
In all seriousness… EGAD!
Holy cow!, that takes a pair of big bronze ovaries to do! :eek:
Damn. So much for the inconspicuous bikini-line scar, I guess.
I guess the local pig gelder was busy.
Is this, perhaps, the most extreme surgery ever performed by a person, on themselves? (Which DIDN’T kill them?)
CNN reported that this is the first self-administered C-section in which both the mother and baby survived.
I don’t want to know about the failures.
As a L&D RN who has seen C/sections go bad with an anesthesiologist presiding, 2 surgeons, a scrub tech, a respiratory tech and 2 RNs present, I gota say
" :eek: !"
Cyn, OB/GYN RN
Well, there was that guy who got his hand caught under a boulder while treking in some remote area, he had to cut his own hand with a small knife and walk back to civilization… eek…
…and the former one-armed man[with apologies to David Janssen] has been fitted with a prosthesis and has returned to hiking/trekking/climbing. Yeesh!!!
If I were him I´d rather be fitted with a cell phone this time…
Sorry for no reference but I recall a story about a guy who removed a tumor from his wife’s brain with a drill and a knife because they couldn’t afford the surgery.
Say what!!?? :eek:
I have a vague recollection of a story I read back in high school that has always stuck with me. Don’t recall it being a UL caliber story, because,I don’t know why.
The Gist:
Around 1870-90 time period, an American woman who was either a doctor’s daughter or married at one time to a doctor, found a lump in her breast. She knew what it meant and that really nothing could be done about it.
She checked herself into a hotel somewhere, drank herself silly, and over the course of a week, performed her own mastetecomy with a knife and loads of booze. Survived it.
I cannot recall for the life of me where I read it.
Self-breast-lump-removal was done by a woman scientist in an Antartica station in the past two years, I believe.
I thought the Antartica woman was airlifted out in a daring rescue. Unless that is another female scientist down there.