After my divorce, I immediately I relocated to OK from MI for what i thought was a great job offer, about 2 years ago. After a month there I found out I had cancer. Did chemo for 3 months and worked through it but it didn't work on the cancer. Got a second opinion a few months later and tried again, this time I took short term disability (only 3 weeks) after work really pushed me (stupid and fell for "we're a family, we're here for you")and they fired me for a made up reason after one week.

Sold nearly everything to move back up to MI to live with my gram, but now I'm attempting chemo again cuz the pain is just too much. Had to go live with my sister cuz gram was just too far from all my doctors.

I just spent the last of my money. I have nothing except my car, a couch, fridge and some other essentials. I'm so scared. I airways did everything right. Saved and saved. Worked hard. Worked through so much pain and illness. And it all means nothing. Because I lost it all anyway. Retirement is now a fairytale.

I've been applying to jobs like crazy but I am rarely getting calls now. However, when I have been called I've gone nearly the whole way, even preemptive offers but they all suddenly disappear after that conversation. I try emailing and calling but they never answer. I don't know what I'm doing wrong!

I'm withholding my health issues because I do not trust anyone. I refuse to answer the "voluntary" disability identification questions, I think that is insane that they're allowed to ask you that. You're judged either way and it's not fair to be seen a less than simply because you are dealing with body shit out of your control. I also have a really rare genetic autoimmune disorder that I am usually always upfront about because I need certain accommodations, just to be able to sit and stand and put my feet level with my body at times.

I am an instructional designer which is just a fancy way of saying I make all kinds of large corporation training resources. I worked at Dow and Corteva and a big machinery manufacturer. I worked really really hard to get to where I was. I thought I finally found my career position, I was finally making money money.

And now it's all gone. Literally every penny gone. I still have a storage unit of some bigger items I wanted to try to save for when I'm on my feet again but I honestly don't know how or if that will ever happen. I lost my job in August last year after 11 months working there. I finally started chemo round 2 in March of this year. Just finished my 3rd treatment (halfway there now). But my cancer is incurable. I'll have to do maintenance chemo for the rest of my life and larger treatments when my quality of life starts declining again.

I can't just take any job because I have two full days of chemo a month and the first week I'm just nonstop vomiting. I know it's harder to get remote work but there must be something I'm missing or not doing right. My brain has been in such a fog with the meds, and the drastic level of stress, any help is greatly appreciated.

I just worry that I'm just going to struggle for the rest of my life since I can't see myself recovering from not only being penniless, homeless, jobless, but I've incurred the most debt I've ever had in credit cards and medical debt. I feel so hopeless, what if I just lose this next job cuz of my health too? Disability doesn't pay you a livable amount and takes forever to get through. I've asked hospitals and doctors for help navigating that system but for some reason, finding help is way harder than it ought to be.

I'm depressed, overwhelmed, stressed, and defeated. Is there anything I can really do??