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In 2003, hiker Aron Ralston amputated his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell and pinned him down.

http://hike.mountainzone.com/2003/news/html/030502_amputate-...

"Ines Ramírez Pérez is a peasant woman living in rural Mexico. She had no medical training, but nevertheless performed a successful Caesarean section on herself: both she and her baby survived"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%A9s_Ram%C3%ADrez

I remember being seriously grossed out the first time I read that story. And, yep. It still grosses me out now!

That story still gives me the chills when he describes how he cuts into the dead flesh of his arm and the gases hiss out of the cut. Ew x 10.

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