BEVERLY:  It -- it gets pretty scary sometimes, you know.  We were doing a rescue one time out in Chandler Lakes, some -- somebody was -- some hikers had -- were -- there was an S.O.S. on the ground, and they picked me up and then they were going to go check them out, you know. 

The weather was really bad.  A lot of wind and, you know, that's when I -- I got a little bit -- Chandler Lake has lots of rugged mountains, and we were so close to them that I felt like we're going to hit the mountains or something, you know. 

And then I said, that's not good, you know.  I'm not going to jump on every -- every situation, you know, after we had that near miss of getting -- crashing with the chopper.  And I -- I decided that it's best if you bring them to me.  You know, bring them to me. 

And then another time was we had a young lady that was a hiking in the Gates, she was from West Lafayette, Indiana, and she was a diabetic.  And she had -- you know, hadn't taken her insulin, and hadn't eaten, and she got herself in a bad, bad situation, you know, where she was -- she was alone, too.  Camping out in the Gates of Arctic alone is -- if you're a diabetic, or even if you're just normal, you should always have a partner to... 

But apparently, this young lady had gotten quite ill, and the Park Service people were a little bit afraid because she was a young woman, you know. 
And so they went and got me. 

I remember we had this small, little clear bubble chopper, can maneuver every place, and then here they brought me to the lady's campsite.  And as I, you know, went in, I tried to talk to her. 

She was semiconscious, you know.  And she had a real bad acid breath, you know.  You kind of have to learn these observation skills and acetone breath, she had that acetone breath. 

And I said, I wonder if she's diabetic, you know.  So I went through her backpack.  Sure enough, there was insulin and syringes and -- and then I -- I told the park rangers, we need to get her to Anaktuvuk to our clinic and we'll try to stabilize her. 

And then I had to set up a -- some IV's because she was -- her tongue was so dry that, you know, it had swelled.  And like she needed fluids bad. 

So I was able to put some IVs, lactated ringers on, I believe, both arms, and -- and the doctor that I called -- and this is the dilemma I have sometimes with non-bens, you know, non-beneficiaries that are not Indian Health Service, but you know, if they needed help, I -- race or anything was no factor, whether non-ben, I just served them, you know. 

And then the doctor that I talked with said that, well, he can't order a charter, it's a non-ben, you know.  How are they going to pay for that, you know.  Well, you know, I don't -- I don't want to hear that.  This lady needs help, you know. 

And the chopper is not big enough to -- you know, didn't have enough fuel supply to fly all the way to Anaktuvuk to -- to Fairbanks, and that was in 1980, I believe. 

And Dr. Buntz, Michael Buntz, was one of our docs here.  Anyway, I told him, I've already prayed, and I think help's on the way.  I don't know what form, but lo and behold, Nenana Fuel Company comes in with their DC-3. 

KAREN:  Wow. 

BEVERLY:  So I said, well, I'm going to do a -- commandeer the Nenana Fuel Company and ask them to bring -- bring -- I need to bring this lady in to Fairbanks. 

So after they unloaded their fuel, we loaded this young lady up into the plane and -- and I had, I believe, my one-year-old baby on my back.  And many times I had my children, and I had to carry my baby because I breast fed all my babies. 

So on the medevac, I brought this lady in.  And she was admitted and she was in diabetic acidosis, you know.  And she could have been in a coma and -- but I happened to come to her aid, you know. 

And I believe she went back and I think she was a Purdue University student, a veterinary student, and I went to her aid, you know. 

Just -- these are just some of the things that -- that we do.  And it's just, you know, nothing to brag about, it's just things you had to do in order to try to help somebody.