Someone very close to me is risking losing her home after months of disability with no pay.

(Copied from a post to a separate sub)

Someone I have known online for a very long time, after many months of suffering, well and truly need help; I've done all I could, but now, she faces a hurdle which I feel cannot be surmounted without external aid. She's a rather reclusive person, and would rather her name and face not be shared at all, unfortunately, so I haven't much of a name to refer to her by.

Having known her since April of last year, this friend is a person that has become very near and dear to me; a brilliant mind studying medicine, working as a paramedic; she's obtained full scholarship to university, only needing to pay her way through living expenses. A truly creative and kind soul, an aspiring artist, and the person who convinced me to keep going in life after I had long decided to throw in the towel from severe depression. She's in her early twenties, and lives alone, without any real contact from an estranged family, in contact with very few people in person due to her rather reclusive nature. Yet, she kept her bills paid by working as a paramedic, which did so quite well... Until disaster struck late last year. An incompetent partner ended up dropping a laden stretcher on her wrist, causing a torn ligament, and mid-carpal instability, the many bones in her wrist no longer connected and being spread far apart within.

Yet, her workplace would not pay her compensation despite being utterly unable to work, due to various complications with insurance and medical. After a few months, she's burnt up most all of her saving to keep paying for her bills, and even had to start choosing which of her utility bills she could pay -- sacrificing heating, even during the middle of winter. She is barely subsisting on any form of food, able to afford little more than instant noodles; even though I've sent her food before, she's become unable to even prepare the most basic of foods with but one workable arm, having spilled and made so many messes in many attempts, not even able to properly clean her home any longer. Furthermore, her inability to act is compounded by a previous injury she'd suffered earlier from being rear-ended by a truck, badly hurting her back and rendering her unable to properly lift heavy loads, despite her doing it regardless until she absolutely could no longer work.

Now, eleven months later, unable to move or get real assistance, she's facing a large mortgage bill of about $4000 US, otherwise she will be evicted and be homeless. In order to survive, she's sold off many of her possessions, but this is nowhere near enough for her to simply pay off by such means. Homeless and injured, she most likely will not live long at all.

She is someone utterly priceless in my life; to lose her would shatter my very soul. So I must come and ask for help, for anyone who may give it; even for a small donation, you have my most sincere thanks, from the very bottom of my heart.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/assisting-an-injured-friend-in-need

I've approximated the costs to 5000$ CAD, as someone living up north, inevitably the currency will have to be in that form; the number is a little low-balled, but should still be enough as a bare minimum to help her out. Beyond paying for such immediate expenses, anything beyond will go towards helping her buy food and keep her alive, and with enough, hopefully to hire some form of aid or obtain some medical devices to speed her recovery.

Thank you so much, even just for reading this and listening to my story. I have never come across someone like her before, nor will I again; it would be a terrible tragedy for such a light to be snuffed from the world. I do not like asking for help like this, and she especially hates the idea, being very reluctant to accept aid without feeling like she's earned it. But in such a time of desperation, I don't know where else to turn.