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Man Dies After Trying To Remove His Pacemaker

November 1, 2011 at 12:56 pm by  

Man Dies After Trying To Remove His PacemakerChicago, IL — Interesting news report out of Chicago where a man has died after he tried to remove his own pacemaker.

Channing Askew, 47, told a worker at the group home where he lived that he was experiencing chest pains and needed an ambulance. While the worker called for help, Askew went to his room and waited for the paramedics.

Once they arrived, Askew repeated that he was having chest pains and then fell unconscious in the ambulance. As paramedics tried to revive him, they took off his shirt and noticed a stab wound in his chest then notified police. Askew would never regain consciousness and died a short while later.

After he was examined at the hospital, a doctor told police that it looked as if  Askew had actually stabbed himself with an unknown instrument in an effort to remove his pacemaker. Not surprisingly, police say Askew may have suffered from mental issues.

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    • Laura_RT

      Wow, just… Wow.

      Was insanity the reason for him being in a group home?

    • http://www.facebook.com/MountainsMakeMeNauseous Jean

      Aw this makes me sad. I can’t help but wonder how a stab wound went unnoticed though… you would think in a group home they would keep an eye out for shit like this.

    • reapre

      I’m guessing so, being only 47, I wouldn’t particularly think he’d be in a group home because of age.  He should still be good for another 15-20 years workwise, I would assume.

    • Prominent Prozac

      For obvious reasons..What the fuck.

    • Optimus_past_my_Prime

      Apparently this guy must have air for blood as none was noticed after having stabbed himself in the chest. Wish I had air blood.

    • guillotinegirl

      Once you have a pacemaker you can never escape off the grid again. Those things have built-in GPS.

    • reapre

      I broke my nose, and tore a huge chunk of skin off when I was 11, it didn’t bleed any thing more than a few drips here and there.  Between the cold air and the swelling, I couldn’t breathe out of my nose either.

      Looks good now, no visible scar.  I can see their being not a noticeable amount of blood, if it was a dark shirt, and he stabbed hard enough to have the base of the “utensil” slam against him to cause enough swelling to close the entrance wound.

    • Pyncky

      Maybe it itched and he was just trying to stop the itch.  THAT’S WHY I USE…. INJECT-ABLE LANOCAINE.

      Friends, we have all had that dreaded under the skin itchiness from the release of histamines  The kind where you want to scrape your skin off on the edge of a concrete block.  For me, instead of breaking out the box-cutter and swallowing an entire bottle of Benadryl,  I use INJECT-ABLE LANOCAINE.   Kid tested, Mother approved.  Use only as directed.

    • Laura_RT

      That was my line of thought also, but I also thought drug issues could have been a reason.

    • Anonymous

      I wonder if he thought that once he got the pacemaker out he would feel fine?

      Darwin Award anyone?

    • SpitefulScorpio

      My Dad had a pacemaker at that age… After he went 3 months without noticing he had a heart attack known as a widow maker. He hates it in his chest and was told by his doctor that a lot of people have issues with it being there at first. My dad freaks out if he thinks too hard about it, I wonder if that was the case here.

    • LeaveMeBe

      Be still my beating heart.

    • Anonymous

      This public service announcement was brought to you by…… Pyncky!

    • Anonymous

      …..but not *too* still!

    • Anonymous

      MAY have suffered from mental issues? OMG, after this I think all doubt has been removed. 

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

      Darwin Wins yet again.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

      Thank you Dr.Phibes.

    • Anonymous

      I wonder if he is related to the guy who tried to do his own hernia surgery.:P

    • Anonymous

      He has the perfect name for predicting his mental status. Askew indeed!

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/my2_cents/ My2Cents

      gotta love it when they take themselves out of the gene pool…. hate when they muck it up with stupidity

    • Anonymous

      I once took care of a schizophrenic patient with a pacemaker, he didn’t mind the pacemaker…it was his eyes that troubled him, he ended up gouging them out.

    • Anonymous

      This and the people found chained in the Philly basement recently are just TWO glaring examples of why we need to re-open all the state hospitals that were downsized or closed down entirely over the past 20 years.There are people who simply cannot live on their own and cannot look after their best interests.So they either meet up with evil people who exploit them for money OR they end up in sorry ass “group homes” with minimal supervision.Half the staff of the these “homes” have no training past what a CNA gets.

    • Anonymous

      That is so true. They’re understaffed and overcrowded, and the staff that is there is overworked and underpaid. All of this is a recipe for disaster.

    • Anonymous

      ewe!

    • http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

      Youch!

    • Anonymous

      “…died after trying to remove his pacemaker…”
      “Not surprisingly, police say Askew may have suffered from mental issues.”

      Really?  Ya think? 

    • Anonymous

      Maybe he could not keep up the pace and decided to be rid of it.

    • Anonymous

      Drug issues were the reason I never left home. I could never have found my way back.

    • Anonymous

      You already might have air for brains. That’s a good start.

    • Anonymous

      I have a pace maker and she is wearing me out. Isn’t it against federal law for men to do dishes?

    • Anonymous

      When I was born Darwins book had to be revised.

    • Anonymous

      Were you that scary looking?

    • Anonymous

      That sounds like my life. Overworked and under paid. The kitchen is over crowded with dirty dishes and my staff is at work.

    • Anonymous

      Maybe one day we will cross paths in a dark alley, then I’ll leave that up to you to decide…

    • Anonymous

      OK ! I apologize I was making a feeble attempt at humor. Please don’t bury your fangs in me and turn me into one of your minions. I am sure they clawed their eyes out because your beauty was over whelming and with out equal and he could not bare for you to have to look upon his defectiveness. Am I safe yet?

    • Anonymous

      Yes minion. You are safe. ;)