BALTIMORE, Md.?? The engineer evacuated from a South Pole research station after a stroke may not be skydiving again anytime soon, but her doctor says she is recovering well.
Dr. Paul Nyquist said Friday that Renee-Nicole Douceur, who traveled to Johns Hopkins Hospital this week for treatment, is regaining her lost vision, and her speech is improving. Douceur expects to be discharged Saturday.
Douceur was evacuated two months after she began experiencing vision, language and memory problems while working as station manager at the National Science Foundation's South Pole research station.
Her case sparked controversy because the officials in charge of the South Pole operation rejected her initial requests for evacuation in August. They said that her condition was not life-threatening and that Antarctica's winter weather made an airlift at that time too risky. The officials waited until the weather improved in mid-October.
The 58-year-old nuclear engineer from Seabrook, N.H., said she would like to go back to the South Pole, but she may need to return to the nuclear industry instead.
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