URGENTLY seeking home for author with cancer and family

Description

I am the author of several novels and a memoir, and also publish essays and short stories. I still write full-time and recently finished a PhD in Creative Writing. My husband is British. He worked for the British Foreign Office for his entire career, and retired two years ago. We have a 15-year-old daughter named Theadora, who is academically driven, with a passion for theatre and writing. She has lived in many countries and just started her 9th school. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, high-grade serous, stage 3C in March 2022. I was originally treated in London for 18 months. But I was there alone, as we were posted to Tashkent, Uzbekistan at the time and my husband had to stay there for work and my daughter, then 12, was in school. When Tim's posting ended, we all moved to France in 2023, where I have been receiving treatment since then. We have a home in a small village near the Cevennes mountains, so I was receiving treatment in Montpellier. But my oncologist there ran out of treatment options for me. I saw an oncologist here at Gustave Roussy, who is a lead researcher on ovarian cancer, and she recommended me for a trial. There was only one for which I qualified. So I am now enrolled in a trial at Gustave Roussy just outside of Paris (in Villejuif). Because I receive treatment weekly, and am often in the hospital for several days at a time, I have been unable to commute back home, as I had hoped. I have thus been in Paris since June, staying in the borrowed apartments of friends. I was alone for the summer, as my daughter was in the US and my husband was looking after our cat in our village and also had to go to the US to fetch our daughter. So far, the trial has been effective at keeping my cancer from progressing. I am often functioning normally. My hope is that if/when this trial stops working I can find another, until a cure is found. But it's also possible I could die sooner rather than later. Thus, it has become clear to me that I need my daughter and husband with me. We just finally succeeded at transferring my daughter to a lycee in Paris (which took months of bureaucracy), where she is scrambling to catch up. My husband is still largely in the south, as there is no room for him here in the studio flat we are currently borrowing from a friend. And because our home there is infested with black mold and he is working with insurers to clear that up. And to unpack the years-worth of boxes from our travels. Our friend who owns this flat in St Maur de Fossés just let us know two days ago that she needs us to leave in two weeks. She wants to give the flat to a relative. This was unexpected, as she had told us we could stay indefinitely. So we have been in a panic, not least because our daughter is already going through a rough transition and because our finances are worrying us. Tim has a pension, most of which goes to bills at home, and my writing income is erratic. And for complicated reasons, we have no savings. I have three novels out on submission right now, and am hoping I can sell at least one of them to help support my family. And am working with a few private clients (I'm also a freelance editor/writing coach). Our plan is to stay in Paris at least until Theadora finishes lycee in two years. She is in Premier right now. I don't want to have her switch schools in her last two years. And of course I don't think I will leave Paris while I am still receiving treatment, which I will be until I die. Her lycee is near the Olympiades metro station on the 14, so we would love to live near there or somewhere in the 13th or 5th. Or Villejuif, which is near the hospital and also on the 14. But Villejuif is a very depressing place, and I spend so much time there already I would prefer not to be so close by! So that is our situation.