Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Hyperion, 2002
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The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the U.S., she was forced to perform a biopsy and in June began to treat herself with chemotherapy, in order to insure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue in October. A daring rescue by the Air National Guard ensued, who landed, dropped off a replacement physician, and in less than five minutes took off with Dr. Nielsen. Set in one of the most remote and desolate yet strikingly beautiful landscapes on earth, Jerri Nielsen's narrative of her transforming experiences is a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment, a chronicle of marvels - and limits - of modern medical technology, and a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity. But at its core this is a powerfully moving drama of one woman's voyage of self-discovery and courage and the fierce dedication of scores of colleagues - both known and unknown to her - whose aid proved to be her salvation.…
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- Titel
- Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
- Autor
- Jerri Nielsen
- Verlag
- Hyperion
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2002
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Paperback
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0786886994
- ISBN-13
- 9780786886999
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My life spiraling out of control, I sought sanctuary at the South Pole.
I found adventure, unspeakable beauty, and great solace. Then I discovered
cancer in my right breast....
From: Jerri Nielsen
To: Mom and Dad
Date: 21 Nov. 1998 11:24:45
Subject: I have arrived
Dear Mom and Dad,
I have arrived at South Pole. It is strange and beautiful. The sun is brightlike a welder?s torch at 3 a.m. They drive bulldozers through the house.Nothing is like anything or any place on earth.
I am too tired to write more but wanted you to know that I am here and safe. Letboys know.
I love you all so much.
The Duff
I step out into a blinding light, into the whitest world imaginable. The nakedsun sears right through my polarized goggles. The cold is so deep and completeit is surreal. My first breaths torch my throat and chill my lungs. This is coldfrom another dimension, from an ice planet in a distant galaxy. And this issummer in the southern hemisphere.
My home?the biomed building?is sheltered under a steel archway thatbranches off the entrance tunnel just before it reaches the dome. The frontentrance is a huge white freezer door?the type found in a meatpackingwarehouse?that keeps the cold out, not in. My room is cozy and comfortable.I have my own bed, dresser, humidifier, bookcases, computer, and an assortmentof wall hooks for skis and cold-weather gear. I stow away the vaccines, stripoff a layer of clothing, and change into shearling boots.
As I walk to my South Pole orientation briefing, it occurs to me that the poleseems designed to disorient human beings. When it is winter back home, it issummer down here. Polar summer is a season of cold, incessant light, and winteris a season of colder, incessant darkness. There is only one day and one nighteach year. Time is practically irrelevant. The South Pole sits at theconvergence of every time zone in the world, so the station managers pickwhichever is most convenient
The funny thing about the pole is how quickly you come to accept it as yourhome. You don?t think about the fact that you are at the bottom of theearth and that this is the coldest, most hostile environment imaginable. Youjust think, Oh, I?m going for a walk today. Or, Oh, there?s my friendwith ice over his entire face, his eyelids are frozen shut, he?s goticicles hanging from his mouth. Doesn?t he look great?
From: Jerri Nielsen
To: Mom and Dad
Date: Sun., 17 Jan. 1999 10:30:03 +1200
Subject: The latest from the Ice
Dear Folks,
The world is so distorted here that it is not possible to keep your bearings.Time is totally meaningless. Time expands and contracts and even with a lot ofattempts to keep it straight, there is no hope. We also have such a shortperspective, as there is no outside input.
We really do have what we need as we need less and less. After a while youalmost stop thinking about sex.
All that I want is for the sun to go away and with it all these summer people. Iam ready for the reality of winter. At first we talked of it with a little fear.We were going to live through the cold, dark, lonely, hard, cold winter. Now weare looking forward only to the warmth of the dome, full of friends andfamily?no matter how dysfunctional?solitude, rest, reflection, andisolation. I will be glad to see that last plane leave. Really glad. I am hungryfor the darkness.
Love you all,
I am already never the same. Duffy
From: Jerri Nielsen
To: Family and friends
Date: 27 Feb. 1999
Subject: Last Days of Fall
I have never been so happy or felt more alive. I am not afraid of anything as Ispend my days with friends. None of us fears death here, even though it is asure thing with a long walk outside. Funny thing.
Love, Doc Holliday
About two weeks after the station closed, I am reading a book in bed andabsentmindedly rubbing my upper chest, when my fingers stop on a small, hardlump. It is near the surface of my right breast, at 12 o?clock. I palpateit, trying to decide how big it is and what it might mean. I have fibrocysticbreasts and have found small breast lumps before. They were always related to mymenstrual cycle and went away after a few weeks. My mammogram was negative onlysix months ago, so I am not particularly worried. I decide to keep an eye onthis lump and wait a month to see whether anything changes.
From: Jerri Nielsen
To: Mom and Dad
Date: Sun., 22 Mar. 1999 07:44:06 +1200
Subject: Sunset
Today the sun set without us. The world was altogether different. It is theworld that I came to experience. There was an eerie twilight around us. The 360-degree circle of flat ice and horizon is washed with pink all along the edge ofour world. Otherwise it was quite dark, not yet night, but no longer day for sixmonths. The wind had picked up the snow into the air so that everything wasblurry. It looked threatening yet so wondrous. It was more of what I thoughtlife here would be like.
There are those among us who speak of huge knots in their stomachs as they thinkof the quickness of the coming darkness. For me the coming of the terrible andterrifying darkness is exhilarating! Today was the most beautiful yet in thisgreat landscape.
I will love the night.
Love, Duffy
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