Man attempts surgery on his hernia with butter knife

[CG6468]

Man attempts surgery on his hernia with butter knife, police say
July 26, 2011 |  7:08 am
 
A 63-year-old Glendale man was in stable condition after he attempted surgery on himself with a six-inch butter knife to remove a protruding hernia from his stomach, police said Tuesday.

When police arrived at the man’s home on the 1000 block of Columbus Avenue on Sunday evening, they saw the man lying naked outside on a lounge chair with what appeared to be the handle of a knife protruding from his stomach, Sgt. Tom Lorenz of the Glendale Police Department told the Glendale News-Press.

Do-It-Yourself Surgery

[thelaughingman]

Sounds like my f-i-l.  He fell out of a tree while deer hunting and impaled himself on a branch.  He pulled it out, pushed whatever guts came with it back in and patched himself up.  He's still alive and kicking, believe it or not.

[JohnnyReb]

Sounds like my f-i-l.  He fell out of a tree while deer hunting and impaled himself on a branch.  He pulled it out, pushed whatever guts came with it back in and patched himself up.  He's still alive and kicking, believe it or not.

OK, I sewed up a bad cut/tear on my leg once while in a wilderness area far from ER/doctors but that's as far as I go.

They had a Soldiers of Fortune thing here many years ago and an X-Green Beret died that weekend. He and some more parachuted into some woods and he got impaled in the thoart by a dead limb. The dead limb had damaged his windpipe to the point of him probably not being able to breathe. When they found him it appeared he had taken his knife and the barrel of an ink pen and attempted to do a tracheotomy on himself while hanging in the tree....now that's MACHO. 

[thelaughingman]

OK, I sewed up a bad cut/tear on my leg once while in a wilderness area far from ER/doctors but that's as far as I go.

They had a Soldiers of Fortune thing here many years ago and an X-Green Beret died that weekend. He and some more parachuted into some woods and he got impaled in the thoart by a dead limb. The dead limb had damaged his windpipe to the point of him probably not being able to breathe. When they found him it appeared he had taken his knife and the barrel of an ink pen and attempted to do a tracheotomy on himself while hanging in the tree....now that's MACHO. 

Woah.  His balls must've been ginormous!

[namvet]

I had hernia surgery last year. that's the most pain ive ever had. now im sporting an invisible mesh screen with titanium staples.