Oil Patch Bits: LTR owner seeks help in daughter’s fight for life

Learn to Return owner, Brian Horner, told Petroleum News that on May 11 his daughter, Briana, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Gray Zone Lymphoma, and is now fighting for her life.

The diagnosis is called “Gray Zone” Lymphoma because it has symptoms of both classical Hodgkin and mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma. Basically a double dose of tough cancers and there were only 300 reported cases in the U.S. last year.

Horner, who lost his other daughter Kelly from a sudden heart attack in 2008, has trained thousands of Alaskans over the years in everything from marine, aviation, arctic and wilderness survival, fall protection, emergency medicine and all else Alaska’s oil and gas workers need to work safely. For many of us, that translated to our personal lives as we took those skills in to our outdoor enjoyment of the state.

Horner has reached out for help. All of you that know him understand it’s not easy to do. Many of us have children of our own. “I’m not asking for me, I’m asking for my daughter,” said Horner on the GoFundMe site he set up for her care.

“She’s going to need special treatment for this disease and as a father, a veteran, survival trainer, and medic, I know what I need. I’m calling on Rescue.”

For more information and to make a donation, please visit: www.gofundme.com/256x4tac.

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