Hello everyone, my name is Catherine.

I really need your help. I'm sad to have to ask strangers to help me. However, I've found myself in a very difficult situation this year and, while I'm doing my best to get back into work (I'm at the final interview stage), I need urgent help to enable me to move to a new town, where I'll have somewhere to live and where I'll also be able to cope with medical costs.

I've been undergoing tests for possible lung cancer since March this year. I'm 40 years old. First I had an X-ray, then a CT scan (which revealed lymph node cysts and a nodule). I then had to wait weeks for a PET scan, which showed activity due to the reaction of glucose in certain cells.

I now need another scan and a biopsy.

For most of this year I've been on unemployment insurance (as I had a very good job before), which has helped to cover my daily expenses and travel costs for medical expenses.

However, this year I found myself in a very abusive relationship that wiped out my finances - trying to run away from the relationship.

I've had little helpings from family and friends to be able to eat. But now I really need help to find somewhere else to live and still be able to have a scan and a biopsy.

My housing situation is now precarious, because I can't afford to pay my rent. I managed to pay October's rent, but that's just about all the rest of my savings.

I've managed to find a family who need help with childcare for 10 hours a week in exchange for free accommodation (a room in their family home), which will help me enormously.

However, I need financial help to do this.

I'm currently in the south of France, very lonely and I miss my friends in the north of France (where this room is).

Where I live at the moment doesn't suit me at all. I'm isolated, alone and without support.

I also don't have any warm clothes with me because I have to go to the furniture repository - also in the north - because after I left my abusive relationship I had to put everything in storage.

So I need help buying basic autumn clothes until I can get to the storage unit.

I'll itemise how the money will be used...

120-150 euros for train costs (I need to take a train back to the Paris region and then another regional train to my new home) I've checked the costs in the rail application (SNCF)

65 euros to send my luggage back via a courier service (I have 3 large suitcases and it's impossible for me to travel alone with them on the train)

200 euros to buy some basic clothes (coat, 2 pairs of boots, jeans, jumpers, pyjamas etc) from Vinted. ) which I'll buy from Vinted. It's also important that I dress well, as I'll be going to job interviews and I'll also be moving into the family home to look after the children - at the moment I've only got summer clothes with me and it's November.

300 euros for travel and medical expenses related to these procedures.

300 euros to help with additional costs (my telephone bill of 65 euros a month, which is vital if I am to make calls) and to pay for food for the rest of the month until I can find work.

I'm happy to provide medical documents and proof of the tests I've had.

I can't tell you how much this help would mean to me. I've tried everything to get temporary work, but being without a car at the moment is extremely difficult.

I would appreciate all the help I can get.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read.

All my love and thanks

Catherine

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