Kansas City, Mo ? Ovarian cancer patient Georgia Hayes wants former pharmacist Robert R. Courtney to have to look at her for a long time.

Hayes testified Wednesday in her lawsuit against Courtney, who has pleaded guilty to watering down the chemotherapy drugs he prepared for her and other cancer patients. He faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced later this year on the federal charges.

“If I had my wish, they would paint all of our faces on his cell block wall so that when he goes to sleep at night, we are the last thing he sees and when he wakes up in the morning, we are the first thing he sees,” Hayes said.

Hayes sometimes cried during her 53 minutes of testimony in Jackson County Circuit Court as she described her fight with cancer from her first diagnosis in 1996 until today.

Both sides rested after Hayes testified, and closing arguments were planned for this morning.

Witnesses called by attorneys for Courtney and Hayes disagreed on whether Hayes had been injured by Courtney’s actions.

Oncologist Robert K. Oldham testified Hayes probably missed her best chance to cure the disease because she received diluted medicine from the pharmacy Courtney operated.

Oldham, who founded the oncology department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and is medical director at CBA Research Inc., said Hayes was in a good position to fight her cancer before she got Courtney’s diluted medications.

Instead, he said, the cancer cells in her body may have become more resistant to treatment because Hayes’ medication was only partial strength.

Asked whether he thinks Hayes is going to beat her cancer, Oldham said, “I think she’s not, at this point.”

Her lawsuit is the first to go to trial of more than 400 filed in Jackson County Circuit Court against Courtney and his pharmacy. About 300 lawsuits that also named drug-makers Eli Lilly & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb were settled Monday.

Ovarian cancer patient Georgia Hayes testifies in Jackson County Court in Kansas City, Mo., in the civil trial of Robert Courtney. Oncologist Robert K. Oldham testified Wednesday that Hayes likely missed her best chance of recovery because she received diluted medicine from Courtney's pharmacy.