Man attempts to cut off arm

Dr. Scott Ellner, Metz's attending surgeon, said Metz used his own tools to cut through his arm on Tuesday, after he smelled dead tissue. "He actually attempted to amputate his arm. He nearly did it, but not completely,"

Doctors gave the account of Metz's harrowing experience at a news conference Thursday. They said the attempted self-amputation probably saved his life, preventing the infection in his gangrenous arm from spreading to the rest of his body.

Sometime you do what you gotta do