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| MARLA: I just was sort of wondering, when you first started being a health aide, if Tanana was open, if the Tanana Hospital was -- HANNAH: When I was being a health aide? MARLA: In the beginning. HANNAH: It was closing. MARLA: It was closing. HANNAH: It was closing, yeah. MARLA: So you didn't ever communicate with the doctors in Tanana? HANNAH: No. Huh-uh. It was all Fairbanks on the phone. MARLA: Okay. That's interesting. HANNAH: But some of the health aides did, though. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Downriver. MARLA: Still were communicating with -- HANNAH: I think Bertha said she talked with doctors from Tanana. MARLA: Tanana. And that's what I was wondering, I know that this service area was a really large service area. HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: It covered a tremendous area. HANNAH: Uh-hum. MARLA: And what -- I wondered whether you were still communicating with Tanana or with Fairbanks at that time, and when that might have switched over. It sounds like it must have been in the early '70s -- HANNAH: Yeah. MARLA: -- when they closed. HANNAH: Yeah. I think -- I don't know what was going on before 1979, as far as community health, because I was gone for a long while. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: I was gone from '65 until '79. So that period, I don't know what happened -- what was going on. MARLA: What do you miss most about being retired now and not being a health aide? HANNAH: What do I miss most about it? MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Not being a health aide? MARLA: Well, we can ask later then, what do you like most about being a health aide? HANNAH: What do I miss mostly. Well, at the beginning when I first retired being a health aide, I missed it. I felt like I was cut off from -- from the world. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: Because you were so in touch with people. With the workshop -- you know, with the whole area. MARLA: Yeah. Not just in the villages. HANNAH: All the seven regions, yeah. You knew people from all over, you know. Galena, McGrath, Rampart. You just got to know people. MARLA: From workshops and training? HANNAH: From workshops and trainings and, get -- you know, that whole program, it was just so wonderful. And you -- you felt like you were not alone, you know. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: You were with people that was doing the same thing you were. And -- and they were -- I guess we became a family like. We see one another somewhere in stores and everything, we just run and hug and say, oh, you're from Minnesota to or you're from, you know, Arctic Village or, you know, people all over. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: And that's -- I miss that. I felt like I was shut off from the world when I retired. I just -- I missed it. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: And it -- it just kind of stayed that way for a long time. MARLA: And then, well, I guess, what did you like best about being a health aide? HANNAH: What did I like best about being a health aide? That, I guess, knowing people. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: And I was cut off from all these wonderful doctors I got to talk to all the time, you know. MARLA: Yeah. HANNAH: On the -- on the phone. Except for Dr. James was a little hard on us, but I liked it, though. MARLA: How was he hard? HANNAH: He just told us like it is. MARLA: Right. HANNAH: Yeah. | |
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