KAREN:  And so when you were medevacing these emergencies out, were they going to the hospital in Kodiak with doctors or they had to go all the way to Anchorage? 

JOYCE:  They -- they would go to either Kodiak or to the Coast Guard hospital, one or the other.

KAREN:  Oh, all right. 

JOYCE:  The Coast Guard personnel made the decisions.  Maybe they would be seen first at the Coast Guard and then transferred to the Kodiak hospital. 

KAREN:  I didn't realize that the Coast Guard had its own hospital. 

JOYCE:  Yes, it did.  They did for most all of the years I was working out. 
One of the people I sent in was -- that time I had the three, he said if I hadn't had him well bandaged and well protected, he says, the way they dumped me out of there at the Coast Guard, I could have been injured from that. 
You have to get them as well splinted and everything as you can, realizing that even a plane trip can be awfully bumpy. 

KAREN:  Yeah. 

JOYCE:  And I gave the immunizations and I saw prospective mothers and gave -- you know, gave them all the prenatal type of things.  And I went to the school and taught health classes.  And just generally was part of the -- the health situation for the whole village. 

KAREN:  Did you deliver babies? 

JOYCE:  Hum?  You know, there's a strange thing, but I never did deliver a baby.  There was a midwife here.  But I took care of babies 10 minutes after they were born, but usually it was an emergency if they were born in the village.  People tried to get to Kodiak. 

KAREN:  They did?

JOYCE:  One time the midwife, who was quite elderly at the time, was visiting with a -- down at a home down here, and there were people from another village that are just in there that are kind of strangers, and the lady of the house excused herself, and the midwife, Irene, went --

KAREN:  Oh, we have to wait for the -- we have to wait for your clock to finish. 

JOYCE:  Okay.  Now, what was I saying? 

KAREN:  The midwife and going into a home where there was some people from another village or something? 

JOYCE:  Yeah.  She was there -- she was there because the heat was off in her house and she was over there to get warm.  And the next thing they knew they heard a baby cry.  And these people, I think they were from Akhiok or someplace, they didn't know, they just thought there was a baby in the house.  The husband came up here and just absolutely looked in shock.  He said, I just had a baby.  So I gathered up all my materials and got down there. 
It was the baby, absolutely naked.  There wasn't a solitary thing in that household for baby clothes.  This was the eighth child in that family.  And the mother said to me since, I didn't want that baby.  She didn't tell anybody she was going to have it.  I can't believe her husband didn't know.  But the way he acted, you'd think he -- not a thing for the baby, not a bottle, not a -- she didn't want to nurse it.  I got the bottle from somebody else and mixed up some formula and gave the baby its first -- first meal.  And found some baby clothes here because we used to keep a lot of things like that on hand for emergencies.  Took baby clothes and blankets and stuff down there. 
I didn't deliver the child, I was 10 minutes later, and they took care of everything, the cord and everything. 

KAREN:  Now, so that baby, that was a Ouzinkie family? 

JOYCE:  I don't want any names mentioned, of course.

KAREN:  Oh, no, no.  We don't -- no.  We maintain confidentiality, of course.