ROSE:  But when I quit, it's all up here now, in my -- in my bowl, in my upstairs.  Everything was here.  I'm just standing right there and somebody's talking to me, I know what it is already.  But anyway, I go through all that physical and everything.  I take all kinds of -- take all kinds of stuff, see. 

If I was younger, and I almost did it, I was going to go on to school and be -- become a PA.  But there was a death in the family and I got really weak and nothing matters to me after that.  I -- I let it go. 

But I could have done it, looked like.  And I will have no sweat.  It's already -- it's already here, except I need to -- my head need to catch that, what the White man know, I got to know the name of all -- all the parts of our body.  And lots of other stuff.  I probably -- that would probably be tough for me.  But I really was going to go to PA school. 

MARLA:  I bet you would have been great. 

ROSE:  Well, I don't know.  Maybe -- maybe I'll show off.  I could have done it.  Well, anyway.  No use to talk proud. 

MARLA:  Yeah. 

ROSE:  I'm all crippled up right now.  And that's why I talk like this because I'm good for nothing. 

MARLA:  Oh, I don't think the people in Huslia would say that. 

ROSE:  No.  I don't think --

MARLA:  And -- and you were also -- you were a health aide when there -- the only communication was on the radio, right? 

ROSE:  Uh-hum. 

MARLA:  Did you always have communication?  Did you always -- were you always able to contact the doctor? 

ROSE:  With them old style radios, state radio, not just every day.  It kind of -- the doctor is talking at the Tanana Hospital and he'd be all covered up with all kinds of noise. 

So it was not every day.  But they helped -- it's really the doctors in Tanana that backed us up by talking to us on the radio and telling us what to do.  I know -- I know that part backed me up.  But that's old radio. 

MARLA:  Yeah.  So what did you do when you couldn't get in touch with them or the doctor? 

ROSE:  I just do the best I could.  What else can I do?  Yeah.  That's all.  But later on, you know, when I get ahold of doctor or else, you know, if mail plane land, then I sent the patient out.  And that's the way it went.  Yeah. 

MARLA:  And then how long was it before you were able to have a different kind of communication? 

ROSE:  Well, not really too long.  Then I know that we got ATS -- they call it ATS-1, I think.  ATS-1 or something.  And then we have somebody standing by at the University of Alaska.  And --

MARLA:  And that was a satellite? 

ROSE:  Satellite.

MARLA:  Uh-hum. 

ROSE:  Yeah.  Well, that's the one that helped me out, I know.  But I'm talking right now, you know, I'm talking -- I'm talking good, I'm talking proud.  Look at what they got in the -- in the clinic now.  That's pretty modern.
 
MARLA:  Yeah. 

ROSE:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  So did you see machines come in the clinics throughout the years, or did you see some medical changes in the clinic over the years?
 
ROSE:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Like what? 

ROSE:  Gee whiz, I couldn't even -- the only thing that they took away was that microscope.  I even was -- I said that I even was using microscope because I kind of -- I kind of tried out every day until I can move it around and focus on what I'm looking for.

MARLA:  Uh-hum.

ROSE:  Uh-hum.  And anyway, right now, they have those other kind of blood pressure.  All they got to do is put it on our arm, and set it, and it record.  That's how quick they go. 

And there's something else that they hook us -- they hook us up on.  It's -- and then up there in the hospital, you know how our heart work by that G --

MARLA:  An EKG or?

ROSE:  Couldn't be.  Something like EKG. 

MARLA:  So they have all that here? 

ROSE:  They got -- they got it all.
 
MARLA:  And X-ray machines? 

ROSE:  No. 

MARLA:  No.

ROSE:  Not here. 

MARLA:  Okay. 

ROSE:  Uh-hum.  That's what we really need.  The X-ray machine.  Because there's no reason to get an airplane and fly for big money to Fairbanks just -- just if they train somebody how to use the X-ray machine, that can be done right here in this village.  There's -- when the budget is always cut back, there's no reason for us to be shipped out to Fairbanks.  Maybe I'll go to meeting and I'll tell them, give us that. 

MARLA:  That's a good idea.