No, no … I’ve Got This!
In 1961, a twelve man Soviet crew was building a new base in the Antarctic. The crew was trapped and isolated for months on end by weather and sub-zero temperatures.
Unfortunately, an ill timed case of appendicitis forced the doctor to improvise a bit.
On April 30, 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov removed his own infected appendix at the Soviet Novolazarevskaja Research Station in Antarctica. The operation lasted one hour and 45 minutes. Ouch!
Okay..Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Boston Corbett
Snip Snip!
Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, had performed self-surgery earlier in life.
He castrated himself with a pair of scissors in order to avoid the temptation of prostitutes.
Afterwards he went to a prayer meeting and ate a meal before going for medical treatment. Amen??
Between a Rock & a Hard Place
Aron Ralston was on a canyoneering trip in 2003 in Blue John Canyon, Utah, when a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm down, crushing it.
After six agonizing days and a multitude of failed attempts to free himself, Ralston did the unthinkable.
Using the dull blade on his multi-use tool, he cut the soft tissue in his arm, and then the tool’s pliers to tear at the tougher tendons.
He was careful not to sever the arteries before attaching an improvised tourniquet. After cutting through nerves and the last piece of skin, he was finally free …. but wait, there is more.
Multi-use tool
Dehydrated, in excruciating pain, and having lost more than a 1/4 gallon of blood, he managed to rappel 60 yards down and hike another 8 miles, until he found help. His ordeal was made into the 2010 movie 127 Hours.
Check out the video below where Ralston describes the amputation in his own words. UNBELIEVABLE!
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thats……disgusting, and weird, i would rather die than do that
I saw this in my new book!!! (fillets believe or not! Book 8)
What a crazy person!!!
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Oh well, I am not health insured, so I pull my own teeth with pliers.
Not quite sure why you’d cut your own downstairs junk off to avoid prostitutes. A simple no thanks would suffice in my book.
Did the snip guy clean up with rubbing alcohol?
Me personally have had my appendix removed at the age of 10 now I’m 11 was very painful luckily I got put to sleep during operation its scary if you get appendices it it very painfull considering the fact you can DIE from it if you times my pain x1,000 he must have been to the point were he almost passed out + the pain from appendix bursting my story was probably way less painful heres my story we were on vacation at Washington DC we went to a restaurant and then that’s when the vomiting started we went back to our hotel I got some rest next day was some special day can’t remember cause its the pain but we were going to see fire works but we missed them cause on the way there from trash can to trash can blaaaaaaaa blaaaaaaaa it was kinda funny there were police officers there and I kept vomiting and making them feel sick LOL we missed them ( stupid appendix ) we went back and called it a day next day I could not keep anything down or I could not even stand my parents had no idea it was my appendix they thought some kind of stomach virus WRONG we drove to Baltimore and went to some famous dead guys grave then Anabel Lee tavern by then I couldn’t even eat a piece of bread then we finally took me to John Hopkins then the surgery fixed me after scans and an ultrasound we saw liquid around my appendix no big deal IT WAS A BIG DEAL puss pockets they had to wash my insides replace all organs not a transplant then after surgery (17 hours) we had an extended 7 days to vacation then finally we went home .thank you RIPLEY’S for amazing me with you books and inspiring me to do amazing things to inspire other humans keep it up hope to develop some weird oddities that can help me work with you guys
Forgot to add after my surgery I’m such a big fan of RIPLEY’S I went to the studio in Baltimore it was fantastic only one stupid attraction hurt me
I got through my appendix surgery with my amazing GF Kaylee Marie Phipps the most ocward part about the Removing Own Appendix thing if would he have to incert a catheter if so that would be painful inserting something into your downstairs door especially if you have to get the pee tube into your bladder my surgeon (not me) inserted a pee tube not me but the worst part is they had to have a woman doctor take out my catheter