A physician's struggle for survival at the South Pole
by Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers
This is the true story of Jerri, emergency physician who chose to seek out the coldest of places to 11 months living and working with other like-minded people. 7 months a year, Antarctica is not accessible when it's too cold to land an airplane. So February 15, 1999 was the traditional closing ceremony and final planet with people who would not hibernate, left the station. The next level of people and food would arrive October 25 ... Thirty-two men and nine women now share space in the dome. Three generators provide the site with light and especially heat. Without them all would, and all bottom freezer a few hours. The temperature outside the dome during the winter can crawl under -70 °. Now begins the real life ...
Jerri thrive in the endless landscape of the medical responsibility to take care of all the other South Pole are. In March, she discovered a lump in her breast, and one suspects that there may be breast cancer. Via e-mail she receives help and guidance to try to fix examination and surgery on himself with the help of his friends. On July 23 she gets out she had cancer and it is aggressive. In addition to the knowledge that she has breast cancer and can not get home until at least about 3 months, starting media persecute her parents, siblings and friends. And her ex-husband create trouble by spreading lies about her.
This is a gripping story of the great nature, the little man and friendship. A book that I read with tears streaming down his cheeks, but still with a smile for all the weird name is needed to survive and live in such a vulnerable place.
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