MARLA:  Well, I think you answered most of my questions.
 
BOB:  Oh, yeah?  That's great. 

MARLA:  If there is anything else that you wanted to say for the record about your experience as a health aide or if there's any advice you might want to give to people who maybe are thinking about being a health aide, you can do that. 

BOB:  Well, yeah.  I could say something about like I said before, everybody should try to learn what going to happen.  I mean, you -- people should try to learn if you've got a heart attack, you should know.  I mean, everybody should know, try to learn that.

MARLA:  Right. 

BOB:  What -- what the symptoms you're going to have.  If you're going to have heart attack or -- or something.  Some other things, if you're going to raise -- raise kids, you should learn a little bit about the health.

MARLA:  CPR and --

BOB:  Yeah.  Yeah.  What child is having a fever or some kind.  And -- and no -- alcohol free and drugs. 

MARLA:  Were you glad that you were a health aide? 

BOB:  I was, yeah.  I -- I think I tried to help a lot of people, I think, if you need -- needed it.  Needed it, yeah.  I always tried to help people.
 
MARLA:  I know there was a woman I talked to on the plane today who said that you were her favorite health aide. 

BOB:  Her favorite, huh? 

MARLA:  Yeah.  And that you helped her.  She almost couldn't walk. 

BOB:  Huh? 

MARLA:  She said she almost couldn't walk. 

BOB:  Oh, yeah. 

MARLA:  And you gave her shots in her knees so that she could walk. 

BOB:  Oh, yeah.  Okay.  Yeah, I know.  Oh, yeah. 

MARLA:  She said you were the -- you were her favorite, most favorite health aide. 

BOB:  Well, I thank you for that. 

MARLA:  So I'm sure that she's not the only one who would say that you did quite a bit to help.

BOB:  Well, I help a lot of people.  I -- I'm very happy to -- to say.  I mean, I was happy to do it.  And tried to help people out.  And some of my favorite doctors helped me out a lot --

MARLA:  Yeah.  Yeah.

BOB:  -- with my work when I was there. 

MARLA:  Did you have any mentors, any people who you looked up to, or -- or any mentors? 

BOB:  Well, some old people I learned to -- to do a lot of things when I come up, I look up a lot of old folks.  And the good advice they gave me.  It's nice to listen to a lot of old people.  They give a lot of good advice.  That's where I learned a lot of things, from old people.  I mean, I listened to what I could use. 

MARLA:  Did they ever talk about traditional methods of healing?
 
BOB:  There's a lot of things they talk about. 

MARLA:  Was that something you incorporated at all into being a health aide? 

BOB:  I don't know.  I -- I learned a lot of things about hunting.  I started following around people who were hunters, you know, I listened when -- when they tell you to do that, that.  That's good -- good teaching. 

MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  I mean, they did teach, but I listened.  When they talked, I listened.  I liked it. 

MARLA:  Well, I think this has been a great interview.

BOB:  Oh, thank you very much. 

MARLA:  And I thank you very much.  Is there anything else you want to add? 

BOB:  Not really.  I guess what I said, I said, you know. 

MARLA:  Okay.  Well, thank you very much. 

BOB:  Thank you.