MARLA:  So did you have -- you have a little booklet?  You had a --

BOB:  Yeah, right.
 
MARLA:  -- a little manual or --

BOB:  I got a -- I got a book.  I still have them. 

MARLA:  You do?
 
BOB:  Yeah.  I used to have a book.
 
MARLA:  Maybe you'll show it to me when we're done.

BOB:  Well, it's somewhere.  I don't know when I got it. 

MARLA:  And that was pretty helpful to be able to know what to do?
 
BOB:  Yeah.  Pretty much.  I got -- I've got a book on human body, I mean.  The kind you could buy from -- from store somewhere. 

MARLA:  So it wasn't a manual that the Health Aide Program --

BOB:  No.  Well, they gave me one when I -- when I started home.  You know.  And you could order that kind for everybody, you know. 

I give my daughter a book because she's got a lot of kids to read, you know.  That every mother and parents should have if they are going to raise babies or boys, or, I mean, children. 

MARLA:  Do you remember what that book was called? 

BOB:  It's a health -- it's a health book. 

MARLA:  First-aid book or --

BOB:  Yeah.  Pretty thick one.  See a lot of things, human body. 

MARLA:  What -- what was the scariest moment that you remember? 

BOB:  Scariest is a heart attack. 

MARLA:  Oh. 

BOB:  For me.  I -- I think I saved myself. 

MARLA:  Really?  How? 

BOB:  Yeah.  How?  I was home alone, Rhoda was out in some Olympic or -- I was home alone here.  I -- I knew I was getting a heart attack.  I had -- the thing I learned from -- from my training what you can have, I mean, when you have a heart attack, they train you what you're having, you know. 

So I learned -- I knew I was going to have -- having heart attack.  So I just called on the CB, they come right away, even, you know, people come right away with -- with -- with the clinic van.  Fire -- firemen have, volunteers have not health aide but they've been trained to pick up people. 

MARLA:  EMT or something? 

BOB:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Uh-hum. 

BOB:  And I -- and we had the health aide who took me over to clinic right away, start giving me those little pills for heart attack. 

So the health aide talked with the doctor right away and they keep me overnight because the weather was pretty bad. 

And they sent me in to -- Frontier was pretty much equipped with oxygen and a little bit of -- I mean, health aide gave me medicine just when I -- put me on the plane.  They took me right to the hospital, Memorial Hospital in Fairbanks. 

And they gave -- I mean, the doctor came from Tanana Valley Clinic.  It was a heart doctor, it was a lady.  And it was in -- I was patient in Fairbanks Memorial.  She come over to see in the evenings, I didn't know the right time, and she listened for a while and she said you're having -- right now, you're having heart attack right now. 

MARLA:  Wow. 

BOB:  She -- she start giving me those little pills for my heart.  And they send me right to Anchorage right now.  I mean, they didn't -- they didn't waste time, they put me on a rescue plane, I guess those little --

MARLA:  The jet? 

BOB:  -- little jet.  Yeah.  It was all equipped.  And took me down to Anchorage right away. 

MARLA:  And then what, did Rhoda know that you -- where you were?
 
BOB:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Okay.  Good. 

BOB:  They got drove in Fairbanks, they took me in right to Anchorage.
 
MARLA:  So if you didn't know you were having a heart attack, you maybe wouldn't have called on the CB, huh? 

BOB:  Yeah.  Right. 

MARLA:  It's pretty.

BOB:  Probably -- probably wouldn't be here today.
 
MARLA:  Wow. 

BOB:  I mean, probably wouldn't have saved myself.
 
MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  I think.  I mean, what I learned in training was I knew a lot, so I called on the CB, I need help. 

MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  They come right away.  And got me to clinic.
 
MARLA:  That's great. 

BOB:  I think -- I think everybody should know, I mean, try to learn if you're going to have heart attack or something like that, to -- you know, people could help themselves. 

MARLA:  Right. 

BOB:  If you're going to have a heart attack, you are prepared, you know, for that -- for that reason. 

MARLA:  Right.