One Grand Adventurer

You might have heard that Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald--the woman who discovered a lump in her breast when she was a staff doctor at the South Pole, and ended up doing her own biopsy and chemo until she could be airlifted out--died yesterday. She was 57, and had survived 10 years after her life took the dramatic turn that led her to become a book author and motivational speaker. 

I remember hearing about her story, but I didn't read her book (Icebound). It will be on my list for my next trip to the used bookstore.

I heard this quote from an old interview with her on NPR yesterday, and wanted to share.

"I had a romantic notion that there was a fronteir and there were adventures to be had in another time, but not in our time. Now I realize that there are always adventures in life--that's what life is. It's just this long up and down adventure. And the South Pole really taught me that, that it isn't a different time, it's now."

Certainly words to live by.