By Adam S. Levy

Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer

The Seabrook, New Hampshire nuclear engineer who suffered a presumed stroke in the South Pole -- and was stranded there for seven weeks due to dangerous traveling conditions -- is headed home.

Renee-Nicole Douceur, 58, said she slept on a plane ride to New Zealand (where she was going to be evaluated Monday), after an emergency rescue evacuation from the research station she was working at in the South Pole.