WINCHESTER — Nancy Rodman has been a nurse at Winchester Hospital for nearly 25 years and she has no plans to leave her job any time soon even though she scratched a million dollar winner recently in the Lottery.

The Woburn native said she stopped by the Town Pantry on Main Street one day recently after her shift at the hospital "to pick up the Daily Times Chronicle and some Lottery tickets."

The winner was a $20 ticket. "When I saw the match I took the ticket back to John (Ashton, who sold her the ticket) to verify that it was a winner."

"He looked at the ticket and said, 'My dear, you're a millionaire."

Ashton, who has worked at the store for nearly 14 years, said, "I think I was more excited than she was. She seemed somewhat subdued."

Over the years, Ashton said, the store has sold some big winners, some of $20,000, some $10,000, and smaller ones of $4,000 and $5,000, but this was the first time he sold a million dollar jackpot.

Rodman got up and went to work the next day. "I never even thought of leaving work. I love my job. Winchester Hospital has been very good to me. I told my boss, nurse manager Karen MacKenzie, and once the work got out people seemed truly happy for me."

After picking up her first of 20 checks, after taxes, about $35,000 annually, she said she put it in the bank and has not bought anything with the extra cash.

Asked what she might do with the money, Rodman said she has no plans right now, but "maybe in the fall when things settle down a little."

No cars, no travel plans, no new house, Rodman said, adding that she intends to pay off the mortgage on her condo and save the rest.

"It will make my golden years a little brighter," Rodman said.

One of the surprising aspects of her good fortune, Rodman said, are the offers coming her way to buy the annuity for a big day, that would total significantly less than she would get if she takes the annual pay check.

"One offer came by UPS and another sent candy," Rodman said. "I can't even look at them now. I have no interest in that at all."

Rodman said she wants to focus on her job caring for her patients. "We're up for being a magnet hospital. It's a big deal, and it's because of how caring we are. I can't tell you how many times people will come up to me or to one of our other nurses and say, 'You were so good to my mother.' Really, it seems we get so much good feedback."

There does not seem to be much question that winning a million dollars won't change Nancy Rodman.