Jeremy's Spinal Neck Surgery Recovery Fund

This fundraiser has been organized by Megan Strawn and Matt Celly, to help support Jeremy Eichelberger through his impending spinal neck surgery.

Many of you will know Jeremy as the talented blacksmith and owner of Oak Mountain Armoury Ltd, and from his time spent at Mount Hope Estate, and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.

Jeremy is facing a multi-level cervical disc replacement and vertebral fusion to relieve the extreme pressure being placed on his spinal cord, and the nerves to his left arm. The surgery has been expedited, and is to be performed by the neurosurgical team at Pennstate Hershey.

After suffering from various compounding neck injuries for over 20 years, Jeremy is now left in excruciating pain, with extreme weakness in his left arm, and little to no use of his left hand, as well as various other debilitating symptoms resulting from the pressure being placed on his spinal cord. Surgical intervention is now unavoidable to prevent permanent nerve damage.

Following a successful surgery, Jeremy will be facing a 4 to 6 month recovery time, with very limited capacity to work or support himself, as well as costs incurred from medical expenses not covered by insurance.

Please consider a donation if you are able, to help him through this very trying time, and please share this page as much as possible.

And here's a message from our beloved Celly:

"I Matt Celly, being of questionably sound mind and in a more questionably sound body, am writing this on behalf of the walking ball of contradictions that many of you know as Jeremy Eichelberger, the owner/operator of Oak Mountain Armoury. This blacksmith and whiskey philosopher has found himself in a bit of a pickle. The inexorable march of time has left him in need of a major spinal surgery including disc replacement and fusion. This is a necessity for him to be able to function not only as a blacksmith, but within the very loose parameters as a human being that he has set down for himself.

All joking aside, this procedure will leave him completely incapable of working in any way, shape or form, for the roughly two months of the initial recovery. Beyond that there will be an additional six months during which he will be limited in his capacity to work and earn. As time and tide wait for no man, the dreaded beast known as capitalism must be fed. So I ask you, as people who are people, to give if it is within your means so that he can afford to do things like eat and live whilst he recoups. Help this pain in the neck recover from the pain in his neck."