Save Renee-Nicole Douceur!
(NOTE: Based on time elapsed since the posting of this entry, the BS-o-meter calculates this is 16.884% likely to be something that Ferrett now regrets.)
If you remember my time writing Home on the Strange, then you doubtlessly remember my co-author Veronica Pare. And right now, she’s trying to save someone’s life:
Right now, Raytheon and the National Science Foundation are denying Renee – Nicole Douceur, the Winter Site Manager at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, life-saving medical treatment after a stroke she suffered last month. To avoid transporting her to an actual hospital, against theor own doctors orders, they have declared her stroke, a severe medical condition, not an emergency even though the lack of treatment endangers her vision, her mental capacity and her very life itself.
See what you can do to help (and spread the word) at SaveRenee.org.