Woman Who Had Stroke at South Pole Recovering

Woman Who Had Stroke at South Pole Recovering
Saturday, October 29, 2011

UPI.com

A nuclear engineer who was medevacked from the South Pole after suffering a stroke is making a good recovery, her doctors at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore say.

Renee-Nicole Douceur, 58, was expected to be discharged from the hospital Saturday, The Baltimore Sun reported. She was treated in New Zealand after being evacuated a few weeks after the August 27 stroke and transferred to Hopkins a few days ago.

Dr. Paul Nyquist at Hopkins said he expects Douceur to recover fully. Whether quicker evacuation would have made a difference cannot be determined, he added.