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Back too soon
Well, that scraped.
We went out, got about a third of the way there, then were stopped by a "medical emergency"... it seems that one of the student assistants was on anti-anxiety medications, but hadn't been taking them. She had a panic attack, rushed outside and fell down or fainted. She then took her meds... my group of four happened to have Jeff Jones with us, the only MD in camp. He consulted with the folks with her, with the nurse in Resolute who had treated her previously, and advised rest, familiar faces, and taking her stuff.
And we were going to continue, problem resolved.... but it wasn't. It became symbolic ("why haven't you returned to camp already? We have a medical problem here!") and emotional. The two leads back in camp became agitated, even emotional. We contemplated calling Polar Shelf for a medevac flight... if the student was *that* bad off, she needed to be in a place with facilities.
We stood there beside a beautiful, unnamed river, arguing over radio and satphone with camp for three hours. We could have probably been to our objective and been on the way home in that time. Driving back, finally, only took 40 minutes (!). I got two more gravity stations, before the so-called emergency happened. Once again, my plans and goals are thwarted by someone else's mental health issues and lack of self-care... sigh.
Problem is IMO that with John Schutt gone to Greenland, once Pascal leaves camp, there's no one with operations experience left to run the camp. Even today's minor issue flustered Steve and Charlie, neither of whom have a desire or inclination to run the camp. Pascal needs a sergeant, a competent operations person or camp manager.
We went out, got about a third of the way there, then were stopped by a "medical emergency"... it seems that one of the student assistants was on anti-anxiety medications, but hadn't been taking them. She had a panic attack, rushed outside and fell down or fainted. She then took her meds... my group of four happened to have Jeff Jones with us, the only MD in camp. He consulted with the folks with her, with the nurse in Resolute who had treated her previously, and advised rest, familiar faces, and taking her stuff.
And we were going to continue, problem resolved.... but it wasn't. It became symbolic ("why haven't you returned to camp already? We have a medical problem here!") and emotional. The two leads back in camp became agitated, even emotional. We contemplated calling Polar Shelf for a medevac flight... if the student was *that* bad off, she needed to be in a place with facilities.
We stood there beside a beautiful, unnamed river, arguing over radio and satphone with camp for three hours. We could have probably been to our objective and been on the way home in that time. Driving back, finally, only took 40 minutes (!). I got two more gravity stations, before the so-called emergency happened. Once again, my plans and goals are thwarted by someone else's mental health issues and lack of self-care... sigh.
Problem is IMO that with John Schutt gone to Greenland, once Pascal leaves camp, there's no one with operations experience left to run the camp. Even today's minor issue flustered Steve and Charlie, neither of whom have a desire or inclination to run the camp. Pascal needs a sergeant, a competent operations person or camp manager.
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