TRUDY: My husband said: “I'll help you if you just stick it out.” So, that's what we did. Every chance he got he was helping me. Taking me everywhere I have to go, just terrible.

KAREN: If you got called in the middle of the night would he go with you?

TRUDY: Oh, yeah. He would go with me even if I had got called 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock in the morning, 5 o'clock, whatever.

But when the boss at the electrical authority found out he said: “You can take some time to sleep whenever you want, maybe at noon until 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock.”

So, he did. Whenever he could catch a cat nap, he'd let him do it. So, that was good. Then on the other, my kids would help me.

If I had a real dire emergency then I would call his dad, the kids' dad. Never anybody else, nobody else showed an interest in. I guess they were afraid if they showed an interest, they might get put on.

KAREN: So, did you lose patients?

TRUDY: No, I never did lose a patient. Ever. I was telling my husband -- he was telling me: “You're lucky you haven't lost any patients.”

I said: “Yeah, I didn't lose any patients, but you're gonna lose me pretty soon, if I don't quit this job.” And he said: “You better quit now.”

But he died before I did, before I quit. He died, eight or nine years ago. Out of the clear.

KAREN: And he was still working, huh?

TRUDY: He was still working. We were just out hunting on his leave time.

And we were trying to get over a hill going back to Hoonah. We were out at the -- they call that place, way out the road. But it was just a little hill. It wouldn't even take much to go up and go over. But he couldn't do it. We were sliding into the side.

It was real snowy and -- Anybody that's lived there would get stuck, so you made every effort not to.

And then two guys came, they were up going hunting and they came, they said: “We need you to get out of the way.” And Bill said: “I can't, I can't even move the car.” “Oh, I'll go get my car and pull you over the hill,” that guy said. And he start going and I say: “Get in -- ”