Meagan
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Username: Newheart14
Post Number: 255
Registered: 01-2009
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Dr. Heather Ross, my transplant doctor, is embarking on another expedition early next year. Building on the hugely successful 2006 Antarctic trip, Drs. Heather Ross and Michel White, and two heart transplant recipients will attempt to ski to the North Pole. They are embarking on this extreme adventure in order to:
• raise awareness about the devastating effects of heart disease,
• save as many lives as possible by fundraising for life-saving heart disease research,
• encourage people to sign their organ donor cards.
The team has been training for over a year. The last degree to the North Pole is a challenging ski expedition crossing the uneven and broken pack ice of the Polar Sea. Once there, all directions point south, all lines of longitude converge, there it really is the top of the world. The sun will be continuously in the sky, permanently above the horizon, in essence time will stand still as no particular time zone is assigned to the North Pole.
Dr. Ross is taking two heart transplant recipients with her to prove that transplant patients can do just about anything after a transplant.
You can read all about her previous expeditions at the link below. She has also gone on expeditions to Antarctica and Nepal for the cause:
http://www.tgwhf.ca/sites/testyourlimits/
She will be maintaining a blog as she has done on her previous expeditions.
Dr. Ross plays the saxophone and sings in her band, the Marginal Donors, together with my liver transplant surgeon, Dr. Paul Greig. Their band will be playing at a fundraiser to be held on October 8, 2009. Tickets can be purchased from Corinne McCurdy at Toronto General Hospital.
I will keep you up-to-date on this expedition once it starts next April.
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