JOYCE:  And I had lots of interesting times.  You know, called for all kinds of things.  Then you get the people who think they know better than you do. 
It was a person that had a badly cut finger.  And the bleeding wouldn't stop.  Well, they finally called for me.  They were -- it was a bunch of people drinking in the household.  Usually my husband wouldn't let me go without going with me on most of these night calls.  But anyway, they had -- they were determined -- they were determined they were going to put a tourniquet on that arm.  All it took was elevating it to get the intense bleeding to stop.  And they were just determined that they had to have that tourniquet.  And I insisted that they were not having a tourniquet.  But usually the things like that, I could always deal with the patient.  It was sometimes the people surrounding them was their problem.  But except when some of them were drinking.  They all respected me.  And I really didn't feel any sense of fear in any of the situations.  Yeah.  At another time when only a four-year-old boy saw this happen, it was a plane crash up in the woods away from the airport.  And this boy tried to tell people he saw a plane going down like that.  But it happened that one of my heart patients was out for a walk along the side of the airstrip and saw a couple of people coming.  At that time, there was no road there.  It was a rough hillside.  And one leaning on the other, he thought they were drunk at first until he saw all the blood.  And so he ran, which he never should have done the way his heart was, to get somebody to -- to call for help.  And those two, the pilot and the other man -- this was actually out of Kodiak.
And I had just been to training and got a special kind of neck brace type of thing.  We were still buying some of those things and I had them buy that. 
This one man, he almost -- was almost completely scalped.  I used a special kind of large bandage and bandaged his scalp back in place and tied it under his chin.  But he had to use that special type of neck brace that we had just purchased.  And the other one had leg injury and an arm -- a chest injury.  It was, anyway, several different things.  And we were trying to get the Coast Guard in.  And it was -- first the local planes were all out for hunting people.  There had been a storm and a number of people had been stuck way out in the wilderness areas waiting to get in.  So we couldn't get a local plane, but then this -- we -- we had the -- the two patients all ready and were just putting them on the back of a truck to take them to the airport when here came a Coast Guard helicopter and landed right in the road beside us.  And we were able to evacuate those two.  One of them wrote back to thank me and supplied us with another of that special type of neck support. 

KAREN:  He replaced the neck brace? 

JOYCE:  Uh-hum.  Because the original one was so covered with blood, we couldn't use.  So that's the only time I ever had anybody -- most of these accidents are people are away from here, and you don't hear again, you don't hear whatever happened.  One man was in here about six o'clock one morning, and on a boat down off the dock, or was on his way, I guess on his way from Kodiak, and had some piece of machinery fall on his hand, and it was really lacerated.  I said, you need to go back to Kodiak and get this taken care of right.  No, I can't, I've got to get up to Port Williams, which is clear on beyond -- beyond Afognak Island.  I've got to go up there.  So I did what I could for him, I put it together as best I could.  We were always instructed not to suture hands because they are so vital, and if you get something wrong, it could cause a lot of trouble.  And so I did what I could for him.  He was just determined not to go to a doctor.  And I never heard.  I always wondered whatever happened about that.  He had a big piece of machinery fall on his hand, and it was -- it was in awful shape.