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The cancer that I had was…I wasn’t feeling good. It was like a cold. Every year I’d get a cold for a week and that was it, and so I went in to the doctor’s and he sent me over for an x-ray and from the x-ray they sent me back to the doctor’s and that’s when he said that there was a mass. And from there I went to New Hampshire Oncology and saw Dr. Weckstein. He then did tests and said it was non-small cell lung cancer. New Hampshire Oncology is the best place that I can see of. The people there – the nurses, the doctors, the staff – go over backwards for you. You know, they have the chairs so that you feel nice and comfortable. They have drinks, if you need a drink. You know, they just go all out for you and I would say if there was any place you had to go, I’d go back there. They treat you like a family member. When I was diagnosed and I talked to Dr. Weckstein, he said that it was at that point, I’d have four to six months and, I had read that…you know I had my mother, my grandmother, grandfather and two uncles die of cancer. They had said that they don’t always tell you the truth, but I told them, I’ve got three daughters and I need to know and he came right straight to the truth. You know, they don’t tell you what you want to hear. They tell you what is there. Going there and seeing the doctors is almost like going next door and visiting a neighbor. That’s the way when they come in the room, you know they shake your hand, relax, everything. It’s like I said, talking to a neighbor. It’s their attitude. It’s just a friendly attitude that they bring over to you that just puts you at ease and I’m afraid of needles. And what they did was put a shunt in and, or a portacath, and they gave me a cream to put on an hour before I go there and it numbs the skin and no problems. And, they didn’t have to do that, but they know I don’t like needles and they go over backwards for you. My wife would go to the appointments with me and mine took all day. So, I was there from seven o’clock when they opened ‘til five o’clock when they closed. And, part of the stuff, the chemicals that they give, one of them makes you really relax and you nod off to sleep and she would stay there and sit there all day, or she might run out and do an errand, but she’s right back there, so, you know, I’d tell her "Go home" and, but no, she stayed right there. What makes me feel good there is then…like I said the nurses, the staff, they treat you like family and it’s…you couldn’t find a better place to go if you had to have something done. |
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My
name is John Stickney. I live in Hooksett I have my wife and three
daughters and I am 46 years of age.
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