I worked for Territory Health then, must have been early 80s after I came back from Darwin. Started out with Batchelor College doing courses, we would go with the nurse or doctor all around on bush runs, to Alroy, Rocky everywhere. Nothing then we go to all the camps. We checked them old people. Some people lived in town; Lands and Houses gave some people houses. But most in camps, Village, Mulga, no Wuppa, only little Wuppa they call it next to the Mulga, no Tinkarli, Karguru, but just a little on the top, not big Karguru. They had a drive-in camp, other side from the drive-in; you could see the movies from there, if you just sit down.

I wasn't working for a while then, I went with eye health, with the glaucoma unit. I was off for one year then went back. The Darwin mob started it. Then they wanted two people in Tennant Creek, so they got a man and woman. We would go out bush to communities and check eyes. The specialist would come in and we would go to Booroloola and Katherine. We checked on all the old people, doing cataracts operations with the specialists. I worked there for a while, then went and got a job back at the hospital in Tennant Creek.

Then I got very sick, this heart problem. So I had to resign from the job. I was very sick, nearly died. I was walking around and I just went skinny and all that. My stomach started to swell up and the doctors thought it was an ulcer, then one doctor, a Canadian doctor, he said, “oh my God you were walking around like a time bomb!” I said, “What are you talking about?” He told me it was my heart. He said I had rheumatic fever when I was a baby and it weakened my heart and enlarged it. The doctor rushed me to the hospital and put a drip in for fluids and then my stomach went down. I was sick for two years. I thought I might die. Now I take tablets. I get migraines from them, too.