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TOUGH Ibtaalkiaern MaryAnn Niceforo comes
from a long line
FIGHTS BACK TO HEALTH of survivors.
For 27-years MaryAnn Niceforo Photo courtesy of Easton Hospital
worked behind the counter at a
20 | INDULGE • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016 bank. Even after five years of retirement, MaryAnn knows about the pain of excellent patient outcomes, high patient
she still misses the job, both the people hidden wounds. As a bank teller, she satisfaction and outstanding clinical
she worked with and the customers she was held at gun point during a robbery. performance. Only 173 centers in the
took care of. The trauma and stress that followed country were recognized for meeting
that incident took years to heal … only the measures.
She finds reasons to stop by and to have it happen again during another
say hi. Like cookies. Every December robbery at gun point. The treatment worked. “The wound
she bakes upward of 2,000 treats is gone,” she says. “And believe me, I
and drops off plates of baked goods to But MaryAnn is a fighter. “That’s check everyday.”
family, friends and co-workers. because of my tough Italian mother,”
she says. A mother who had breast THE BAKER
This past year, the cookies didn’t get cancer. Other family members also
made, let alone delivered. fought that battle. MaryAnn comes She saw firsthand the wounds other
from a long line of survivors. patients bring to the center in hopes for
THE WOUND a miracle and is glad she got hers.
DEEP DIVE
In the summer, MaryAnn noticed “I’m so grateful for this center,” she
blood in her bra. She assumed she’d Kannangara prescribed 60 says. “The staff are wonderful and the
been scratched and applied some hyperbaric oxygen dives. MaryAnn care is excellent.”
ointment. The next day the blood arrived first thing every morning for
returned. This pattern continued for nearly two months. She’d slide inside That’s good news for others who
a month. the chamber and breathe pure oxygen count on her cookies. “I’m back in the
for two hours. kitchen,” she says. Her father was a
Finally she decided to make an baker, a career she still considers.
appointment with her surgeon, Chand Body tissue needs more oxygen
Rohatgi, M.D., an independent member to heal from an injury. Hyperbaric “If only I was younger, then I’d open a
of the Easton Hospital Medical Staff. treatments increase the amount tea shop and serve scones, cookies and
of oxygen carried in the blood and tea,” she says.
A decade earlier he removed her stimulate healing.
right breast because of cancer. She She’d share the recipes handed
wondered if the spotting was related to Easton Hospital Wound Healing down from her tough Italian mom.
her cancer. Center was recently recognized by
Healogics, the nation’s largest provider
When Rohatgi saw the blood, he of advanced wound healing services, for
sent her to see Infectious Disease
Specialist Saman Kannangara, M.D. at
the Easton Hospital Wound Center.
Healing after cancer treatment
can take years, and the wounds often
develop from the inside out. This
wound, about the size of a quarter, took
years even to surface.
from a long line
FIGHTS BACK TO HEALTH of survivors.
For 27-years MaryAnn Niceforo Photo courtesy of Easton Hospital
worked behind the counter at a
20 | INDULGE • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016 bank. Even after five years of retirement, MaryAnn knows about the pain of excellent patient outcomes, high patient
she still misses the job, both the people hidden wounds. As a bank teller, she satisfaction and outstanding clinical
she worked with and the customers she was held at gun point during a robbery. performance. Only 173 centers in the
took care of. The trauma and stress that followed country were recognized for meeting
that incident took years to heal … only the measures.
She finds reasons to stop by and to have it happen again during another
say hi. Like cookies. Every December robbery at gun point. The treatment worked. “The wound
she bakes upward of 2,000 treats is gone,” she says. “And believe me, I
and drops off plates of baked goods to But MaryAnn is a fighter. “That’s check everyday.”
family, friends and co-workers. because of my tough Italian mother,”
she says. A mother who had breast THE BAKER
This past year, the cookies didn’t get cancer. Other family members also
made, let alone delivered. fought that battle. MaryAnn comes She saw firsthand the wounds other
from a long line of survivors. patients bring to the center in hopes for
THE WOUND a miracle and is glad she got hers.
DEEP DIVE
In the summer, MaryAnn noticed “I’m so grateful for this center,” she
blood in her bra. She assumed she’d Kannangara prescribed 60 says. “The staff are wonderful and the
been scratched and applied some hyperbaric oxygen dives. MaryAnn care is excellent.”
ointment. The next day the blood arrived first thing every morning for
returned. This pattern continued for nearly two months. She’d slide inside That’s good news for others who
a month. the chamber and breathe pure oxygen count on her cookies. “I’m back in the
for two hours. kitchen,” she says. Her father was a
Finally she decided to make an baker, a career she still considers.
appointment with her surgeon, Chand Body tissue needs more oxygen
Rohatgi, M.D., an independent member to heal from an injury. Hyperbaric “If only I was younger, then I’d open a
of the Easton Hospital Medical Staff. treatments increase the amount tea shop and serve scones, cookies and
of oxygen carried in the blood and tea,” she says.
A decade earlier he removed her stimulate healing.
right breast because of cancer. She She’d share the recipes handed
wondered if the spotting was related to Easton Hospital Wound Healing down from her tough Italian mom.
her cancer. Center was recently recognized by
Healogics, the nation’s largest provider
When Rohatgi saw the blood, he of advanced wound healing services, for
sent her to see Infectious Disease
Specialist Saman Kannangara, M.D. at
the Easton Hospital Wound Center.
Healing after cancer treatment
can take years, and the wounds often
develop from the inside out. This
wound, about the size of a quarter, took
years even to surface.
