BOADING,CHINA–A Chinese farmer sawed off his own leg after suffering from a blood clot.
Zheng Yanliang, 47, decided to saw off his own leg with a hack saw and fruit knife after the doctors efforts and painkillers didn’t do the trick.
Yanliang says he didn’t have money for the doctor recommended amputation and after the doctor prescribed pain pills didn’t work and being told he only had three months to live, he took matters into his own hands.
“…I used the knife to slice the skin and pull it back so I could see the bone. Then I used the saw to slice through the bone after putting a belt around the leg to stop the blood flow,” “I did not want to distress my wife, but I had to wake her when the hacksaw blade broke.”
Yanliang reportedly recovered from the operation but now needs to have the other leg amputated.
