9 Badasses Who Performed Surgery On Themselves

3. Self Administered Ceasarean Section - Ines Ramírez

Fun fact: Caesar was almost certainly not born via Cesarean section, as his mother Aurelia survived well into his adulthood, whereas the procedure in ancient times was almost always fatal to the mother, or used when the mother was already dead.

Not So Fun Fact: In March of the year 2000, Ramírez Pérez went into labour in her remote town in Mexico and, after 12 hours of all pain and no baby, decided to take matters into her own hands, rather than lose the child. It was at this point that she reached for a bottle of alcohol and a 15 cm kitchen knife and began to cut at her abdomen.

After one hour and three attempts, she reached into her own uterus, pulled out her baby son, cut the umbilical cord with a pair of scissors and passed out from the immense pain. When she eventually came round she covered her wound with clothes called for her 6 year old son to run for help, thus firmly embedding herself in the universe's compendium of the biggest badasses in history.

When she was taken to hospital and stitched back together, all of the doctors expressed shock that she had not died from blood loss or infection, passed out from the pain or damaged any of her other internal organs. Some theorise that her adoption of the traditional Indian birthing stance allowed her uterus to rest directly against the abdominal wall. She is the only known survivor of a self-administered caesarean and her case was written up in the March 2004 issue of the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.