KAREN: Being a small community, how do you think your being a health aide effected your relationships with people in the community? Did people respect you, was it hard because you knew all these confidential things and what was that like?

AGNES: Oh, yeah, everybody was respectful and they always said: “If you need any help just let me know.” There' s always people that are willing to help.

KAREN: Well, that kind of covers all of my questions. I'm sorry we had to repeat some of it. My mistake. And is there anything else that you've thought of that you wanted to talk about that I haven't asked about?

AGNES: No, I would have liked to get more training in other -- you know, in the health field, but money was always the problem. And then of course leaving your home.

KAREN: So, by more training you mean like a PA school or something like that, is that what you mean?

AGNES: Yeah, I wanted to go on to school for pediatrician. But money was the problem. They didn't have all those trainings then that they have now.

KAREN: You mean the financial aid, things like that?

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative). And then there was a place in Philadelphia, so I could have gone to, but it was too far and no money.

KAREN: And any favorite stories or -- from your health aide years, maybe ones you tell over and over again to people that we haven't -- could you tell --?

AGNES: Oh, Marge has some good ones.

KAREN: There must have been some funny times as well, especially if it was you and Marge together.

AGNES: I remember working in the hospital down at Mt. Edgecumbe. Working the nightshift, it was so hard to sleep during the day. You'd have to be at work at midnight and couple of times the security guard had to come and knocked on my door and said: “The hospital wants you at work.” “What?” I said: “Is it that time already?”

So I didn't get to work 'til 1, 1:30 in the morning. That was so embarrassing. The summer, summer time like this and the days were so nice and you can't sleep.

KAREN: Yeah, nightshift would be hard.

AGNES: Yeah, but got to get used to it. Some times you had to work double shift 'cause they were short. I had worked evening shift 3 o'clock to midnight and they'd asked me to leave at 6 and come back at midnight and work 'til 8 in the morning.

KAREN: Wow, how do you do that?

AGNES: You had to do it. You'd go home, go to sleep and go back to work at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, I usually worked 3 o'clock to midnight and then switched me over to midnight to 8. That was kind of hard at first and it seemed weird to work during the day, 8 to 4.