Rodeoing to help others
Linda Hepler, cancer survivor, has benefitted from the Tough Enough to Wear Pink funds raised by the Oregon Trail Rodeo and donated to the Morrison Cancer Center in Hastings. Photo courtesy Morrison Cancer Center.
Linda Hepler has been told she's a miracle, and she knows it.
In 2019, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given three months to live.
Three and a half years later, she's still on this earth.
The Hastings, Neb., woman's cancer spread from her pancreas to her lungs.
She underwent 21 chemotherapy treatments at the Morrison Cancer Center and is now considered to be in remission.
Hepler, a custodian at a school, wasn't able to work. Since the pancreas, which helps control blood sugar, wasn't' functioning correctly, she got diabetes, losing weight and having blurred vision.
After a "solid...
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