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| MARLA: What, can you explain a little bit more about what their role was? HANNAH: They train us. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: So they would come to the village -- HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: -- to train? HANNAH: Health aide training was health aide training nonstop. They'd just go from what new things that come up, your -- your -- your CI would come up and train you on that. Or something new would come up in the manual, you know, the change in the manual, they would come and help you do that. And change in the medicines. And -- and just ongoing. Every -- you know, it never stood still. It just kept -- you know, something come up all the time. And they were very good about always coming out here to -- you know, they -- they didn't just say, hey, you have to do this, they'd come out and make sure, you know, that you're doing it. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: And then they would check your medicine supply and they would check you to see if your -- you know what your medicines are and so on and how to use it. You know. They -- they train us, but then they keep up on it. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: To see if you're doing it. MARLA: Did you have the same CI throughout the year, or -- HANNAH: No. No. We changed a lot. MARLA: And did they -- HANNAH: The longest one we had -- I had for this area we had was Jim Androuli. Who is physician assistant now at Chief Andrew Isaac. MARLA: Okay. And -- and so you said that you were working out of your house for a few years, and then was the clinic built? HANNAH: They were -- our council was working on getting a clinic. And it -- it took -- it took awhile, you know, for, I guess, maybe some of the other village had priority or something. I don't know how that worked. But it took awhile for the council to get -- I guess it's like the funding or something to get a clinic. MARLA: Okay. HANNAH: And everything started to happen fast and we got a clinic. MARLA: Do you remember when that was? HANNAH: Which is still there. I'm not -- I forgot. But it was, you know, sometime back. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Not too long after. I was health aide for 17 years, so here in my house for two years. So it was awhile. MARLA: So you were pretty happy to get it out of your house? HANNAH: Oh, my God. Yeah. I guess the worst thing that happened to me having it at my house is okay, no problem, visiting doctors would come out here and they would see their patients here. With -- with me working with -- with the health aide, of course. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: And we always -- you know, I was really strong on clean water. And so I had this big container of nice, clear, icy water. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: Over there. And it was like -- it looked like a garbage can but it was clean water container. And I had patients here, you know, and the doctor and I were there in that back room checking people and talking and patients waiting here. In -- in the living room. And evidently, somebody thought that was a garbage can. MARLA: Oh, no. HANNAH: Well, I didn't know it, you know, so we went in -- the next thing I went to get some clean water and here's a Kleenex and stuff in there. MARLA: Oh, no. HANNAH: So that thing, that whole thing, it did turn into a garbage can after that. So I had to start all over on my water thing. But. | |
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