KAREN: Well, I think that just about covers most of my questions. I appreciate you sitting here for so long with your hurt ribs. I know it's painful. Is there anything else that you can think of that you want to talk about?

TRUDY: Uh-hum (negative). I don't think so.

KAREN: Your favorite health aide story? Funny stories, anything?

TRUDY: After I quit being a health aide everything was so dull. I just felt like, oh, I don't ever wanna live here again.

My husband was still alive when I was gonna quit. “No,” he said, “you're gonna want us to come back here and stay.” I said: “Not me.” I went to Sitka and no way I was gonna live there. It was so changed after so many years. But we got married in '57 or '58.

KAREN: So, after you quit as the health aide you left Hoonah?

TRUDY: Yeah, I moved away from there completely.

KAREN: And you haven't lived there since?

TRUDY: I lived there one year after I came back from Sitka. I stayed at the Sitka Home for three years.

Then my little boy and his dad said: “We're gonna come to get you and you can stay with us after you come home.”

So, I went there and I stayed there a year. I have a friend working in the state office that was going to Hoonah all the time.

And she said: “I could find you a place in Hoonah or in Juneau to stay, so you could be near me when I could come and see you.” And I thought that was really good. I can't think of her name.

KAREN: But that's when you moved here to Wildflower Court.

TRUDY: She got this place. She said she told them about me and said I wanted to come, to go somewhere, so I came.

She said: “Just go there and see what it's like and if you like it, you can just stay there.”

So, my boy was arguing with me -- excuse me -- and I got mad, I thought the heck with it, I'll just pack up everything and go. And I packed up everything and I came here.

And I moved in, I don't wanna go check to see how it is, so I'll just stay here.

KAREN: Do you remember how many years you've lived here?

TRUDY: Two years.

KAREN: Okay.

TRUDY: Going on two and a half. This is my second or third room.

KAREN: Oh.

TRUDY: I used to live way down that way. Then I went to Anchorage for surgery on my leg, then when I came back they put me in here.

KAREN: Okay, well. Thank you very much for spending the morning with me, I really appreciate it. Hopefully, you've enjoyed it too.

TRUDY: I did.

KAREN: Good.

TRUDY: I haven't talked about the health aide business for a long time.

KAREN: Well, it sounds like that you and your daughter Marilyn did some talking about it the other day.

TRUDY: Yeah.

KAREN: That's good.

TRUDY: She came in just to be with me --

KAREN: Yeah.

TRUDY: -- to help me with that. I told her: “I just don't know what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't think I could tell anybody the real tragic things that went on. My mind is just blank.”

She said: “I'll come in Mom and help you.”

KAREN: You did fine.

TRUDY: She came in on Sunday and went back. Oh I thought to myself, I just cannot pull myself together to do it. And I thought. Well, I just forget about it. I didn't.

KAREN: No, I think you did fine. You remembered things.

TRUDY: It was so good though, to talk about. Her and I would just roll around on the bed telling each other things about that health aide business.