KAREN:  So you used to -- before there was the clinic, you would go to people's houses? 

CLARA:  Uh-hum (affirmative).  You know, when they couldn't come or somebody would come and tell me there's something wrong with someone, and I'd pack up and go. 

One time there was a boy across the slough in winter, it was right when we started work, and there was a boy across the slough that was sick, must have been about 8 months old.  And we had our first son. 

So my husband went out and he hooked up three dogs for me, the sled.  And so I took what I thought I'd need and went.  And I was only about 20.  And passed the school, and all his old classmates and kids waving and I wave at them.  I went across.  Took care of the kid. 

Come back home, and I was passing the school again, I was waving, and my foot slipped from the runner where you stand, I was dragging.  I was dragging and them kids came out.  They all ran out and helped me get back on the sled.  Sad times and fun times. 

KAREN:  Yeah.  Well, I know you have other things to be doing, so I'd love to sit here and talk with you all day. 

CLARA:  Oh, yeah. 

KAREN:  You have some great stories and memories. 

CLARA:  Uh-hum (affirmative). 

KAREN:  Maybe, who knows, another time will cross and we can do some more. 

But just is there anything else that comes to mind that you've been thinking about that I haven't asked you specific question about, or something you want to say? 

CLARA:  I don't know. 

KAREN:  Okay.  Thank you.

CLARA:  Well, it's harder -- it seems like it's harder to get health aides, especially in smaller villages, and nobody wants to leave their village to be a health aide in another village. 

Some villages I know don't have -- at least for one doesn't have a health aide, and that another health aide has to float in from another village to -- to cover the clinic. 

And not for every day, every week, it's -- it's like for -- for a week, and then leave and then come back for another week.  Really encourage the young -- the young people to -- to go for it.  Being a health aide is -- is a career in health.  It's like don't think it's just a health aide job.  It's -- it's a career.  And if you like doing the work, you know, you go on for years and get rewarded in the end with your retirement check.  Okay. 

KAREN:  Quyana.