KAREN: Did you have to worry about confidentiality?

AGNES: Oh, yeah.

KAREN: How did you handle that?

AGNES: We were trained in that and training in nursing. You know how people are curious. They all say: “Who got hurt? What happened to them?” I would say: “Somebody got hurt. And that's all I can tell you.” It wasn't hard. It was probably hard for some people to keep their mouth shut.

KAREN: What about some of the cases you had to deal with? Do you remember sometime when you were really scared?

AGNES: When I was really scared, oh man. The one I was scared of was when that fisherman got a hook in his cheek close to his eye.

I said: “My gosh, you're so lucky that you didn't get that in your eye.” And I can't remember how we got that hook out. He said it doesn't hurt, but I'd sure like to get that hook out of there. Then we tried to clip the barb out. And then he said: “See if you can work it out where -- how it got in there.” That part just blanks out.

KAREN: You don't remember?

AGNES: No. We got it out. I know, I was scared 'cause it was so close to his eye. And it just, I don't know, it just came out ok.

And then there was Warren, about a finger too. I can't remember what happened to him. But anyway, gave him first aid, took care of it and then I tell him: “I think, you'd better --” I think he had it smashed or something.

And then I tell him: “You'd better get on the plane and go see a doctor.” And he said: “Ok.” But he came back and said everything was done right.
And then that one time, too. There was an elderly man, he slipped and fell on the ice and broke his leg and there was bone sticking out. Marge and I took care of him.  That was another scary one. But the only thing we could do, they had these inflatable, I think it was that guy, they had the inflatable splints, put that on and it was so easy and they put him on a stretcher and shipped him out.

KAREN: So, the planes they take them to the hospital in Sitka?

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative).