carry your u-bottle

June 20th, 2008 at 08:07am Jennie Pollock

on thursday, i attended the rockford chamber of commerce’s women’s expo, where i laughed my way through jerri nielsen’s amazing story about treating her own breast cancer at the south pole. she had quite the sense of humor while telling us about how she trained the welder to operate on her. that’s just one example…

the reason i’m writing about her on “go green” is that she said the station was one of the most “green” places on earth. not because it’s a giant sheet of ice. because it’s a pack-it-in, pack-it-out place. meaning you put your pee in a u-bottle, then put it in a barrel with a funnel, to be hauled away later. and if you can have a bottle as wide as a peanut butter jar, apparently for women, it’s worth crying over. wow. makes you appreciate a toilet (and 80-degree summer weather!).

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