Battle with cancer leaves LaBrie in need of help with harvest
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It took just over a day for friends and neighbors of Richard LaBrie to cut through the final 80 acres of this year’s harvest, helping finish a job that had become troublesome due to complications with his cancer treatment.
Richard LaBrie has been on the giving end of a harvest bee, helping friends and neighbors bring in their crops when they could not. He just never expected to be the recipient of the kind of goodwill Nebraska farmers offer to one of their own when times are tough.
In mid-November, however, with harvest season winding down to 80 acres or so of corn standing in a field on the west side of the Hall/Hamilton county line, LaBrie faced some serious health challenges. Having been diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma in October, he began treatment just as harvest was starting. Between the second and third week of treatment he developed Tumor Lysis Syndrome, which can be life threatening.
Without being asked, neighboring farmers jumped into action, with John Hoelck spearheading the effort.
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