MARLA:  Okay.  So we're back on.  And you were talking about what you learned when you were doing caribou samples.
 
BOB:  Oh, yeah.  I -- I learned a lot of things, what the caribou got, and what the peoples would eat, you know, eat the caribou, the kind of caribou you get when they were sickness, kind of tell the people don't take it or it's a waste, some of them, but --

MARLA:  How could you tell when they were sick?
 
BOB:  They -- there was a lot of things you find out when you skin caribou or cut up caribou, you have a lot of -- a lot of things.  Like tapeworm.  It's a little egg that caribou have in the -- in the body, not just one place.  You should cook it or don't eat it.  You know.  Cook it or give it to dog some.  And a lot of things.  Liver, lungs.  Pneumococcus got in caribou lungs. 

MARLA:  And then you said something about radiation, there were radiation levels in --

BOB:  Oh.  That's when -- when they had to -- I collect samples for radiation people, for -- I guess atomic energy or I don't know.  They just got me to collect that and that, from what sort of a body on caribou, what part of it.  They tell me to collect that, that, and date it.  And where you got it, you know. 

MARLA:  Hmm.  And was that while you were a health aide? 

BOB:  Oh, yeah. 

MARLA:  You were doing that? 

BOB:  You know, it's not a -- when I was a health aide, it's not a -- it's not a big pay.  I mean, have to do other things that to support the family. 

MARLA:  Right. 

BOB:  You have.  $60 is not a hell of a lot of money. 

MARLA:  Yeah.  And how many children did you have?
 
BOB:  Huh? 

MARLA:  How many children did you have?
 
BOB:  We have five.

MARLA:  Yeah.  It's not a lot of money for five children.

BOB:  No.  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Was it hard to get away to hunt?
 
BOB:  Well, I could any time I want.  And any time I work.  I mean, when they call me, I'm back home and do that. 

MARLA:  Was there anybody else in Anaktuvuk that could help during when you were a community health aide?  Was there another health aide, an alternate, or --

BOB:  Yeah, I have an alternate.  They help me out when I'm out, they go to the house there, when the children have fever or tell the parents what to do.
 
MARLA:  Who is that? 

BOB:  I have Rachael and Beverly was one of them. 

MARLA:  Okay. 

BOB:  She's a good one.  And she went to a lot of training after.  And Rachael went some training.  My -- they were my alternate.  And there was -- I guess a health aide all over Alaska helping a lot of people.  Yeah. 

MARLA:  That's for sure.