hour drive to Childress. He had first visited an oncology clinic in Abilene about an hour away. The clinicians were nice, but " I felt like a number," he said.
After his first appointment at Childress this year, his oncologist, Fred Hardwicke, walked him over to meet the nurses who would administer the medicine, Woodward recalled.
Most Fridays during Herlinda Sanchez ' s chemotherapy, Manuel would nap in the car. But during her final treatment in June, he stayed nearby, counting down the hours.
Several family members joined Herlinda when she rang the bell later that afternoon to signal the end of her treatment.
" I don ' t want to be in San Antonio no more," said Herlinda, a mother of four who does administrative work at Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio. " I ' m looking forward to the break."
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