“The amount we’ve spent over the last year alone has left us in a precarious financial position as a family.”

Phil Elverum, a member of erstwhile Olympia band The Microphones and still recording under his solo Mount Eerie moniker, is seeking donations for his wife Geneviève’s cancer treatment.

Elverum set up a GoFundMe page yesterday (June 1) to “help Geneviève and her family escape cancer.”

Geneviève is a successful cartoonist under the name Geneviève Castrée and has also recorded music as Woelv and Ô Paon.

“In May of 2015, four months after giving birth to an incredible and healthy daughter, Geneviève was diagnosed with inoperable stage 4 pancreatic cancer,” he writes. “It was really out of the blue for this super health conscious 34 year old.  Since then she has been undergoing chemotherapy and many other alternative treatments, staying focused on the positive point of light on the horizon.”

He continues: “Over the course of the past year+, our community and family have come together to help with baby care and food and logistics and some money.  Insurance has protected us from the most devastating of the medical expenses (after a very high deductible), but the many peripheral costs that aren’t covered by insurance have totally depleted our savings, money we had slowly accumulated from so many years of grinding it out as self-employed artist/musicians, now with a baby.”