Help me pay my bills while I go through cancer treatment

Hi, my name is Eveline and I was diagnosed with cancer in February 2024. Since then, I have had 2 surgeries, numerous tests and scans, and I am half way a very heavy chemotherapy treatment. After that, I will have daily radiotherapy for a month, hormone treatment and medication for at least 2 years. I am self-employed and live in the lovely, but very expensive, city of Dublin, Ireland. I took a 6-week break during my surgeries in May and my finances were impacted. I applied to Social Welfare benefits, but as self-employed, there is not much available, and all my requests were declined. I had to rush my return to work and was trying to combine a stressful full-time job of 40 hours/week as Quality Manager with gruelling chemo. It didn`t work. I was hospitalized on September 19th with various infections due to low immunity caused by chemo. My doctors told me very clearly I can no longer work. If I don`t work, I don`t get paid, but the bills keep on coming. I need your help to pay rent and bills until the harshest part of the treatment is over and I can return to work again. I worked as a volunteer for others all my life, so I thought it`s now my turn to ask for help. For those who know me and are also struggling, please don`t feel you need to donate. But for those who can, I thank you with my deepest gratitude.

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