Thank you for your honesty and I am sorry to hear about your medical problems. As I said in my post this isn't the first time this happened and it's unfortunate because it causes us a lot of extra work trying to check the authenticity of each artwork.

I think you will find the steemit community is quite generous and if you had made a post about needing money you may have received some support, it's unfortunate you thought plagiarism would go unnoticed. I am looking at ways to ask each artist to verify now I will have to think about this a bit.