KAREN: So what did you like most about being a health aide?

AGNES: Seeing people and their different problems. Help them out if you could. Kept me in shape anyway. All that walking we had to do. And then the elderly people were so thankful that somebody was there to help them.

And it was so sad when we had to take care of little ones with their earaches. A lot of kids with a lot of ear problems, high fevers and strep throat. Even our own kids. My own baby had ear problems. And, oh, she used to feel so bad when I'd have to give her a penicillin shot: “My Mom gave me a shot!” She'd tell Marge that. She'd have a fever of a 104 and still wanting to play.

KAREN: Now this is the one that you would take on calls with you?

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative). And now, she's got her own kids.

KAREN: Did she like going with you?

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative). She never fussed. She was a good kid. She enjoyed it, too. Yeah, it's a good thing 'cause from the time she could walk I walked her up town, walked her back home.

KAREN: Did she ever want to become a health aide like you?

AGNES: Oh, she said she was going to be a nurse like Ma, but she never did.

KAREN: Yeah.