Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() FitzGerald called the process “the Marx Brothers do chemotherapy.” ![]() The only way to deliver them was through a rare midwinter airdrop, successfully completed in July by an Air Force jet in total darkness - in a field lit only by fire.Īfter the National Science Foundation, which sponsors the Antarctic station, issued a news release about the mission, FitzGerald’s mother wrote to her that “Dan Rather’s lead story was your lump” and jokingly noted that the airdrop was described as a million-dollar mission, so “if this turns out to be benign, maybe you’d better lie about it.”Ī high-tech tether to the outside world had also been delivered - video conferencing that enabled breast-cancer specialists in Indiana to monitor the chemotherapy administered by colleagues. ![]() specialists through a video link, but they were inconclusive.ĭoctors monitoring her condition via satellite e-mail decided that she needed chemotherapy drugs and medical equipment. Slides of the tissue sample were transmitted to U.S. Using only ice and a local anesthetic, she performed her own biopsy with the help of a resident welder, who had practiced by sticking needles into an apple and a shriveled yam. But the mass kept growing and by early June, FitzGerald was training her unorthodox, largely male medical team, which included a carpenter and a mechanic. ![]()
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