A doctor is facing his worst fear

Doctor saves woman life after AccidentSTORY HIGHLIGHTSHusband has to insert a breathing tube through Mrs throat without drugs to HomeOne of the biggest fears for medical professionals: to save a person's life, you need to know Alison and Tim Delgado are both a medical resident in CincinnatiRELATED TOPICSAneurysmBrain InjuriesBrain and nerve HealthEmergency MedicineInjuries and trauma Cincinnati (CNN)-as he his wife limp body cradled in his arms, Tim Delgado himself said, "You have to do this." The fate of Alison, wife, best friend and medical school classmate, depended on. Usually steady hands trembled as he held her pale face, constant and fumbled with the tools that could save their lives. DOE eyes rolled at the back of her head. Through tears, he said, "I'm babe sorry." Then, he stabbed his neck. Alison's eyes shot open. She chuckled pain and weak claws on the tracheotomy tube that pierced the neck. It was November 21, 2010, and only a few minutes previously had the newlyweds in bed rose. Only six months married and concentrated on her career, not the couple even time wedding photography setting for their new home to pick out had. Now all that - and more-would be put on hold. You were always ready to sleep, if an aneurysm in the Alison's ruptured brain, triggering a violent seizure of power. Without an airline to help it could breathe on her own vomit suffocated and died have. For Tim, second year medical resident, jamming a pipe in his wife of neck without drugs "the most difficult was that that I've ever had to do." What Tim Delgado experienced that night as one of the greatest fears of the people in the field of medical-, that one day series, are the life must save a mistress ' see unbelievable, it was the second time, Alison's life of Tim--contingent, and to this day he wanted his cool to keep. A bad first date for Alison, the night of their seizure is a blur. You don't remember the tracheotomy tube - and it's probably better this way. Alison combines her arm with her husband on the pair couch at her home in Cincinnati. On the wall above them, framed photographs Chronicle of the Delgados Adventures: the New Mexico mountains they climbed together, road trips to Wyoming, family celebrations.