Our dear friend Nellie Korn has recently been diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Nellie lives with her mother, Meryle, in a small home in Bellingham. The original version of this story described possible intensive cancer protocol and also stated that our goals were to repair flood damage in her basement living space to support her in-home convalescence.

Since Nellie felt her first symptoms on June 15th, her disease has progressed rapidly and with dramatic worsening of her symptoms. Following several days of chemotherapy, the hospital informed Nellie that the disease was too agressive to hope for a positive outcome. Nellie moved to Hospice House on 31 July. We are changing the goals of this fundraising effort to support Nellie’s continuing end-of-life expenses and to help support her mother Meryle’s care from this point forward. Nellie has been Meryle’s caregiver for some time, and Nellie’s greatest concern is for the continuing care of her mother. We continue to ask for your help, as you are able. As we have said before, thank you so very much to everyone who has donated and everyone who continues to support Nellie and Meryle through your kind words, visits and food for Meryle and your continual presence in their lives.

All of us in the community of music and art who know Meryle and Nellie, and those who have worked with Nellie or received Nellie’s sound engineering help, want to do everything we can to help remove the burden of this diagnosis from their lives. This GoFundMe is the way you can let them know how much they mean to you. Your support, whether through donations or sharing this fundraiser, will make a real difference for Nellie and her family.