guillee:

Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov performing an appendectomy on himself during a soviet antarctic expedition in 1961.

I didn’t permit myself to think about anything other than the task at hand. It was necessary to steel myself, steel myself firmly and grit my teeth.

(Via Coudal.)

Holy. Shit. That’s badass!

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    Holy. Shit. That’s badass!
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    I don’t like getting a splinter out of my foot.
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