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Rachel Ohm - November 2014
Scott Greaney, the owner of Greaney's Turkey Farm in Mercer, Maine was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma in November 2013, right at the height of turkey season. The farm raises about 1,000 turkeys (and chickens) every year, and doctors at Dana Farber told Scott to stay out of the barns during his chemotherapy treatment in order to avoid bacteria found in the grain dust. Scott was afraid that being unable to work in the barn would force him to close it down. However, his children, Emily, 17, Ben, 15, and Adam, 11, stepped in to take over the chores and yielded another successful Thanksgiving season.
'“At work, I tell everyone there are no excuses,” said Greaney, who is also the director of suicide prevention at the veterans hospital at Togus in Augusta. “Unless you’re in the hospital in the (intensive care unit) on a ventilator, you don’t have an excuse. When my oncologist told me I had to cut my working hours in half, because my job is too stressful, I just tried to put that in perspective. It’s not stressful, because it’s a process I’m used to dealing with. It’s what I’m trained to do.”'
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Original source: www.pressherald.com
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