A. Did she really say this?
B. Is it possible that her small Alaskan town didn’t have a doctor?
At the link from the link, it explains that she was living as a child in Skagway and that it was about 6 hours from there to Whitehorse in Yukon. One mention was for her brother who had burned himself. IT is a similar distance to Juneau from Skagway, but perhaps the terrain makes it more interesting to travel that way...
See post #39.