{"id":349,"date":"2013-01-15T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artscilabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-11-12T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:57:25","slug":"more-to-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2013\/01\/15\/more-to-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"More to the story……"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, \u00a0 Ralph Harvey here, \u00a0PI of ANSMET.<\/p>\n

The field team has asked me to fill you in on news from this season that didn’t show up in the blog because they weren’t sure how to deal with; \u00a0there’s more to the “Groundhog Day at Larkman” story from a few days ago than they told you at the time.<\/p>\n

As they left Larkman for the Mt. Cecily site last saturday morning, the team’s mountain guide \u00a0(Shaun Norman) \u00a0had been dealing with severe headaches for hours. \u00a0And as they got rolling, \u00a0things got worse, \u00a0with Shaun getting disoriented. \u00a0 The team recognized this as very serious and immediately returned to Larkman \u00a0where Shaun recovered significantly after some time in the tent, warm fluids and food. \u00a0Again the team did the correct thing; \u00a0they consulted with doctors in McMurdo Station and the decision was made that Shaun should go back to McMurdo for evaluation. Shaun made it back to McMurdo within the day and while he seemed to have recovered fully, the doctors there (including a neurologist) recommended he get back to Christchurch for a more detailed evaluation.<\/p>\n

As of this writing Shaun has been back in Christchurch for about a day. \u00a0I don’t have any details to share with you right now on his condition (UPDATED BELOW), \u00a0but I can say that when I talked to him in McMurdo he seemed absolutely perfectly normal, \u00a0which for Shaun means full of good humor, \u00a0communicative to the point of being a chatter-box, personable, \u00a0and more concerned for the team he left behind than for himself. \u00a0We’re all praying that this was nothing more than severe dehydration and stress, \u00a0which is entirely possible- \u00a0the Larkman site is one of the highest we’ve visited, \u00a0at the equivalent of about 9500 feet, \u00a0and the traverse to Cecily was a big deal for which Shaun was in charge. \u00a0It is really easy in the thin cold wind to work too hard and drink (and breathe) too little. \u00a0In fact, in my own 20+ years of ANSMET fieldwork, \u00a0I’ve only had altitude sickness one time, \u00a0and it was in that region, while working too hard to get a traverse underway. \u00a0 It happens to be best of us.<\/p>\n

As for the team, \u00a0over the last 72 hours they’ve consulted with me, \u00a0with John Schutt (the mountaineer for G-057) and the field safety folks in McMurdo. \u00a0The decision was made that rather than go on to Mt. Cecily, \u00a0where they’d get to work only for a few days at most, \u00a0they will traverse back to the Otway landing site when weather allows. \u00a0It’s about a 6 hour trip, and with their satellite images, \u00a0maps, GPS and their own snowmobile tracks to find their way, it shouldn’t be a big deal. \u00a0In fact it may have already happened- \u00a0 I’m sure the next blog post from them will update us. (UPDATE BELOW)<\/p>\n

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I will try to keep you updated as I learn more. \u00a0 For now, \u00a0let’s all send our hopes and prayers for a very healthy Shaun Norman to recovery fully and quickly, with no long-term consequences.<\/p>\n

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Shaun Norman<\/p><\/div>\n

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UPDATE: \u00a03 pm tuesday east coast US time. \u00a0Jim Karner called me from the field and said that the systematic team is at the Otway landing site after a traverse that went very well, almost 2 hrs shorter than expected. \u00a0They’re packing up 16,000 lbs of cargo and getting in the queue for flights back to McMurdo. \u00a0Shaun Norman apparently had an MRI yesterday and there are no signs of brain injury, and they’re describing his episode as an extremely severe migraine.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the recon team is still at Szabo Ridge, waiting to move toward Klein glacier for pickup or a trip to Pole to get a plane from there……<\/p>\n

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Hi, \u00a0 Ralph Harvey here, \u00a0PI of ANSMET.<\/p>\n

The field team has asked me to fill you in on news from this season that didn’t show up in the blog because they weren’t sure how to deal with; \u00a0there’s more to the “Groundhog Day at Larkman” story from a few days ago than they told you at the time.<\/p>\n

As they left Larkman for the Mt. Cecily site last saturday morning, the team’s mountain guide \u00a0(Shaun Norman) \u00a0had been dealing with severe headaches for hours. \u00a0And as they got rolling, \u00a0things got worse, \u00a0with Shaun getting disoriented. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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