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Woman Suffers Stroke in Antarctica

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    Stranded for weeks

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American woman in need of medical help and stranded there for weeks.

Is finally rescued.

Pentium brown is following this live from our breaking news desk and -- Well John after weeks of waiting that American researcher who suffered a stroke while working in the south full poll is finally flown to safety.

58 year old -- Nicole -- or of New Hampshire says she is lucky to be alive.

Coming.

Coming from South Pole on the -- pressurized planes which I was worried about here about wondered could do -- more serious damage or stroke or who knows what else.

They kept the plane a very low altitude so neat who knew what to do it did something that had happened to me but it's luckily.

Nothing whatsoever.

Fantastic place.

-- -- fell -- back on August 27.

She requested several emergency evacuations but was initially denied due to safety risks but this morning the plane she had been waiting for finally arrived the US air force C seventeen.

-- from McMurdo Station in Antarctic got to Christ church New Zealand.

To -- has been living in the South Pole for a year.

Working as a manager for research company.

-- source says she is happy to be rescued but she is still experiencing some visual impairment and difficulty speaking.

She's now undergoing tests in New Zealand before she's allowed to head home to the US John.

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