The Sun Bay Paper Page 25 March 18, 2022 - March 24, 2022 Local Dent ist Helps Uninsured Adul ts Dr. Andrew Frey, Dental Assistants Alex and Ali and Dental dental care exclusively to Uninsured Adults in the Fort Myers area. Our facility is very modern but still modest while using the latest technology and treatment modalities. We focus on the technology that delivers the highest quality care without all the glitz and gadgetry that increase costs. This allows us to offer lower fees to serve the people in our community. Dr. Frey grew up in Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, which has been ranked as the top dental school in the United States for the past four years, according to the QS World University Rankings. Dr. Frey comes from a family legacy of dental providers and has moved to Southwest Florida with his wife Valerie, currently a middle school teacher. After watching the dental profession change, we felt it had to be done a different way (A Non Insured Way). Patients often remark they find our office to be a breath of fresh air in an age where profit and greed driven corporations and insurance agencies are invading every aspect of our lives including our healthcare. Here at Independent Dental Care, we treat all patients like we would our own family and friends. Dental insurance itself is a huge clerical expense for a dental office. If we worked with insurance companies we would have to hire more people just to process and reprocess claims as the insurance companies decide the best treatment for the patient. Dr. Frey said in his opinion the entire concept of dental insurance has led to today’s inflated dental fees and a climate that encourages treatment based on fees rather than needs. The insurance system is a breeding ground for greed, fraud and prejudice. We see a number of new patients each week, yet have always been able to get people in for the emergency care they may need. “We explain to our patients that we don’t cut corners on treatment, care or materials”, said Dental Assistant Alex. “We provide ourselves in treating people, not just their teeth. We love dentistry and feel great about providing excellent care driven by our desire to help others.” Many of our patients are seniors or those with a very limited healthcare policy that gives them only a few benefits and then charges more for their other needs. We offer no gimmicks just to get you in the office. We offer only modern quality dental treatment at an affordable cost. Dr. Andrew Frey, D.D.S. License Number 22529 (239) 738 - 3523. 13611 McGregor Blvd. Suite 3, Fort Myers, FL 33919 Paid Advertisement Ernest Shackleton the elements hurled their worst at them: “The wind simply shrieked as it tore the tops off the waves,” Shackleton wrote. “Down into valleys, up to tossing heights, straining until her seams opened, swung our little boat.” The next day, the wind eased off and they made it ashore. Help was almost at hand; but this, too, was not the end. The storms had pushed the James Caird off course, and they had landed on the other side of the island from the whaling station. And so Shackleton, Worsley and Tom Crean set off to reach it by foot--climbing over mountains and sliding down glaciers, forging a path that no human being had ever forged before, until, after 36 hours of desperate hiking, they staggered into the station at Stromness. 'My Name Is Shackleton'- There was no conceivable circumstance under which three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station, and certainly not from the direction of the mountains. And yet here they were: their hair and beards stringy and matted, their faces blackened with soot from blubber stoves and creased from nearly two years of stress and privation. And old Norwegian whaler recoded the scene when the three men stood before the station manager Thoralf Sørlle: “Manager say: ‘Who the hell are you?’And the terrible bearded man in the center of the three say very quietly: ‘My name is Shackleton.’ Me – I turn away and weep.” Rescue Mission to Elephant Island Once the other three members of the James Caird had been retrieved, attention turned to rescuing the 22 men remaining on Elephant Island. Yet, after all that had gone before, this final task in many ways proved to be the most trying and time-consuming of all. The first ship on which Shackleton set out ran dangerously low on fuel while trying to navigate the pack ice, and was forced to turn back to the Falkland Islands. The government of Uruguay proffered a vessel that came within 100 miles of Elephant Island before being beaten back by the ice. Each morning on Elephant Island, Frank Wild, whom Shackleton had left in charge, issued the call for everyone to “Lash up and stow” their belongings. “The Boss may come today!” he declared daily. His companions grew increasingly dispirited and doubtful. “Eagerly on the lookout for the relief ship,” recorded Macklin on August 16, 1916. “Some of the party have quite given up hope of her coming.” OrdeLees was clearly one of them. “There is no good in deceiving ourselves any longer,” he wrote. But Shackleton procured a third ship, the Yelcho, from Chile; and finally, on August 30, 1916, the saga of the Endurance and its crew came to an end. The men on the island were settling down to a lunch of boiled seal’s backbone when they spied the Yelcho just off the coast. It had been 128 days since the James Caird had left; within an hour of the Yelcho appearing, all ashore had broken camp and left Elephant Island behind. Twenty months after setting out for the Antarctic, every one of the Endurance crew was alive and safe. While Shackleton's crew miraculously made it back to England, his ship did not. For more than a century, the Endurance remained among history's most elusive shipwrecks. But in 2022, an international team of marine archaeologists, explorers and scientists located the Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded when Endurance sank. “We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search,” said John Shears, the leader of Endurance22, the expedition team that used submersibles and drones to locate the wooden ship. Shackleton's Early Death Ernest Shackleton never did reach the South Pole or cross Antarctica. He launched one more expedition to the Antarctic, but the Endurance veterans who rejoined him noticed he appeared weaker, more diffident, drained of the spirit that had kept them alive. On January 5, 1922, with the ship at South Georgia, he had a heart attack in his bunk, and died. He was just 47. With his death, Wild took the ship to Antarctica; but it proved unequal to the task, and after a month spent futilely attempting to penetrate the pack, he set a course for Elephant Island. From the safety of the deck, he and his comrades peered through binoculars at the beach where so many of them had lived in fear and hope. “Once more I see the old faces & hear the old voices—old friends scattered everywhere,” wrote Macklin. “But to express all I feel is impossible.” And with that, they turned north one last time and went home. History.com Cont. from pg 23
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