Brain Tumor Threatens Farmer Jolted By Firing
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Emily Vincent, a 43-year-old sheep farmer, ICU nurse, and Town Planning Board member learned she had a brain tumor in the midst of planning a Family Farm Day for the Hilltown communities where she lives. More than a thousand visitors attended the event, bringing agricultural tourism and economic vitality to Berne and its surrounding neighbors. Emily was thrilled, but the headaches that were her constant companion took away from the joy she might otherwise have felt.
Now, six months later, Emily will undergo surgery to remove the tumor growing in her brain. Doctors have told her the outcome is uncertain. She may be paralyzed, experience compromised movement, coma, or any stage in-between. As an ICU nurse, Emily is all too aware of other potential consequences to her surgery. Her biggest fear is dying and leaving her family laden by debt and having to give up the farm and sell her sheep.
Emily is struggling with the uncertainty of her health and the impact on her family, but there’s more. When a new administration took over Town government, she was unceremoniously, and without notification, wrongfully removed from her position on the Planning Board for political reasons. Her dismissal was illegal, in defiance of NYS Town Law 271 (9), and took away the supplemental income the job provided, income that supported her farm. Emily’s distress is evident in the many tears shed, and in the fears she so willingly shares with her friends and family. (Please read the linked newspaper article for more information: Altamont Enterprise 1-16-2020 ).
Between the medical expenses that will exceed her insurance coverage, and the legal fees associated with getting her position on the Planning Board reinstated, she is facing significant financial hardship that may compromise her farm and livelihood.
Team Emily is hoping to help this normally energized, young woman regain her financial footing so she can concentrate on her physical recovery. Her surgery will take place in NYC in days. Friends and neighbors will care for her animals and support her physical needs as she recuperates. We hope you’ll help, too. We will post regular updates of her recovery.
Listen: Emily Vincent, raising lamb, from California to New York
‘I have a lot of sheep’: Families are invited to meet them
Now, six months later, Emily will undergo surgery to remove the tumor growing in her brain. Doctors have told her the outcome is uncertain. She may be paralyzed, experience compromised movement, coma, or any stage in-between. As an ICU nurse, Emily is all too aware of other potential consequences to her surgery. Her biggest fear is dying and leaving her family laden by debt and having to give up the farm and sell her sheep.
Emily is struggling with the uncertainty of her health and the impact on her family, but there’s more. When a new administration took over Town government, she was unceremoniously, and without notification, wrongfully removed from her position on the Planning Board for political reasons. Her dismissal was illegal, in defiance of NYS Town Law 271 (9), and took away the supplemental income the job provided, income that supported her farm. Emily’s distress is evident in the many tears shed, and in the fears she so willingly shares with her friends and family. (Please read the linked newspaper article for more information: Altamont Enterprise 1-16-2020 ).
Between the medical expenses that will exceed her insurance coverage, and the legal fees associated with getting her position on the Planning Board reinstated, she is facing significant financial hardship that may compromise her farm and livelihood.
Team Emily is hoping to help this normally energized, young woman regain her financial footing so she can concentrate on her physical recovery. Her surgery will take place in NYC in days. Friends and neighbors will care for her animals and support her physical needs as she recuperates. We hope you’ll help, too. We will post regular updates of her recovery.
Listen: Emily Vincent, raising lamb, from California to New York
‘I have a lot of sheep’: Families are invited to meet them
Fundraising team: Team Emily (7)
Team Emily
Organizer
Berne, NY
Emily Vincent
Beneficiary
Jennifer Peters
Team member
Marcello Iaia
Team member
Amy Pokorny
Team member
Cynde Schwartz
Team member
