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• Literary Club Meeting - February

  • When
    Thursday, February 11, 2021
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    7:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    Hosted Virtually
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    4 registrants

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  Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole 

  by Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers

  Led by Jessica Baker
  

  Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via email with doctors in the United States, she performed a biopsy on herself, and in July began chemotherapy treatments to ensure her survival until condition permitted her rescue in October. This is a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment; a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity; and, at its core, a powerfully moving drama of love and loss, of one woman's voyage of self-discovery through an extraordinary struggle for survival.

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