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Show 41 they were a r e a l ly bright blue. That made such an impression on me, because she looked right at me with those big blue eyes." When they reached a meadow vihich looked as though i t would be a safe place for a helicopter to land, one of the seasonals who had worked with helicopters in the Army flagged the areaj He placed bright pieces of clothing on the four corners of a space sufficiently wide for the aircraft to put down. As they waited, Janey gave Marianna more oxygen and checked the dressings. "We viere just trying to keep her alive until the chopper got there with the doctor. There was nothing else vie could do." Marianna seemed to be losing her b a t t l e for l i f e . She looked waxen, although amazingly enough, she vias s t i l l conscious. Then, faintly, Janey heard the vihirring of helicopter blades. Everyone jumped and waved as the aircraft came into view, hovered, and landed. A doctor and his aide leaped out to run to vihere Marianna lay. They took her blood pressure, but couldn't get any reading at a l l . Immediately they began to give her an intravenous solution. "She'd been on her way out," Janey says, "but vihen they started that I-V i t vias as though l i f e flowed back into her again. I could see that she was coming back, and I was so glad. As soon as she vias stabilized, vie put her into the helicopter, s t i l l in the Stokes l i t t e r , and they flew her to Lake Hospital." At the park's Lake Hospital, the doctor gave Marianna further treatment to prepare her for a flight to the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, vihere she underwent five major operations during the next seven weeks. After her i n i t i a l hospital stay, she returned at several-month intervals for further plastic surgery to |