Heroic midwife uses Stanley knife to cut choking boyfriend's airway open

He was "as good as dead anyway" so his girlfriend made a risky, split-second decision to stop him choking at a barbecue - she cut his airway with a Stanley knife. Hastings man Izak Bester said the emergency tracheotomy could have had major personal and professional implications for his girlfriend Sarah Glass - a midwife. "She's definitely a hero - it's pretty amazing but if I died or been brain damaged she would have carried that for the rest of her life," Bester said.
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