MARLA:  And then did you talk to the doctor every day?
 
BOB:  Not -- well, when I have, yeah.  When I have something to talk about.  Then I give him the information and all that, and doctor told me to do that and that.  You know.  Over the radio.  And it was pretty bad.  I mean, radios don't get there all the time.
 
And like today, you have hard time, it's good weather or bad weather.  In those days, you have a long wait from here to Tanana.
 
MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  Sometime you -- some villages have -- they hear the doctor again, you know.
 
MARLA:  So when that happened, did they relay to you --

BOB:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  -- what the doctor was saying? 

BOB:  Yeah.  Yeah.  We work it out that way.
 
And later on, from university, this lady come around, they were studying telephone to satellite in those days.  It was a lady named -- I've forgotten.  And when I went to Fairbanks, I see that lady, took me upstairs and all the equipment, you know, for telephone. 

And -- and they -- they put money in for a telephone line from the -- from the school -- school to my house.  Then put a phone.  She put a phone in my house, then I could talk to doctor there in the hospital.  It worked out pretty good that way.  I mean, it worked out fine, nearly every day. 

MARLA:  So then whenever you needed him, whenever you needed the doctor, you could -- you could talk to them? 

BOB:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Do you remember when that was, when the telephone was put in? 

BOB:  It was early, the satellite, that's when they were working on telephone through the satellite.
 
MARLA:  Okay. 

BOB:  Through the university.  I mean, I guess it was first ones, I don't know.