KAREN: What would you do if you got a call for an emergency in the middle of the night?

AGNES: You'd have to go. “Wait 'til I get there.” We'd have to either run to where ever they are or if you can get a ride from somebody. It was hard 'cause we didn't have a car. I didn't drive anyway. It was all on foot.

KAREN: That's amazing.

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative). We were good and healthy then. We'd never make it now.

KAREN: Do you remember some of those big emergencies that you had to deal with?

AGNES: The gunshot wound, the stabbing and what was the other one? I can't remember the other one.

KAREN: You mentioned something about a car wreck?

AGNES: Oh, yeah a car wreck with young kids. They were lucky. They're all alive today.

KAREN: Wow.

AGNES: Oh, yeah. And then one of our relations was in a bad car wreck. They brought him to the -- this is when we got the new clinic and he had glass embedded in his skull and I had to help the PA take all that out. Crazy.

KAREN: How do you do that without falling apart?

AGNES: I just -- I don't know. You have to do it. I don't know, I can't remember how many pieces of glass I took out of his skull.

KAREN: Yeah, I wonder how doing that kind of work in a small community where you're either related to people or you know everybody. How do you do that? Was that hard?

AGNES: No, but it was, you know, it made you feel bad. But you just knew you had to do it. You just get used to it as the years go by. Yep.