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The Antarctic winter, with conditions 100 diplomas below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and watercraft and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite tv hook-up. Through the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on an employee of forty-one people, learned a lump in her breast. Consulting via dish e-mail with doctors in the U.S., she was forced to perform a biopsy and in June started out to take care of herself with chemotherapy, in order to make sure that she could survive until conditions allowed her recovery in October. A daring recovery by the environment National Shield ensued, who arrived, dropped off a replacement physician, and in less than five minutes took off with Dr. Nielsen. Set in one of the most distant and desolate yet strikingly beautiful landscapes on earth, Jerri Nielsen's narrative of her transforming experience is an exciting adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by way of a hostile environment, a chronicle of marvels - and limitations - of modern medical technology, and a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of isolated, intensely linked community faced with adversity. But at its main this is a powerfully moving episode of 1 woman's voyage of self-discovery and courage and the fierce dedication of ratings of acquaintances - both known and unfamiliar to her - whose help proved to be her salvation.
