Recovering from year of colon cancer and employer terminated me
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:04 pm
Good afternoon,
My name is Jennifer.
I am a single mother who just finished a long year of Colon cancer and Chemotherapy, and then a rare form of Polyneuropathy, which limited my ability to walk and use my hands.
(All during Covid)
I was terminated by my place of employment, as they decided that they did not want to accommodate my Chemotherapy schedule.
Life has been so incredibly difficult since then, that I barely have it in me to get out of bed each day. I am lost and I am desperate to find out how I can get through.
I was able to get unemployment up until September.
My last chemotherapy treatment was late June, though- and I was given my job back by a different company that I had worked for prior to the one that terminated me for cancer.
One week after I started that job, I developed severe Polyneuropathy.
I could not control my hands or do any tasks that required much use of them without severe pain. I could walk but I had no concept of where my feet were in space and time....it made me fall- A LOT.
I had extremely bad chemo brain, which left me unable to remember names, phone numbers, job instructions, and so much more.
I had to quit that job. But was told I was not eligible for disability because I was under 60 and could "technically" still work.
Unemployment ran out in September.
I'm high risk for Covid and terrified of the Vaccine, as I'm just now healing in my whole body. And trying to recover from the colon cancer.
I have, however, applied for over 60 jobs.
I lost my food stamp benefits today over a missing document that I actually sent to the state, but they have not processed yet.
I'm facing eviction, as my rent is not paid for October and November...my car is about to be repossessed for November and December's payments. All those because my employer fired me.
Mt furniture is about to be taken because I'm late and my power bill is over 500 bucks.
I get 500 a month child support and that's all, and nothing from my employer when they fired me or non from disability from colon cancer.
I am at a loss.
Cancer was nothing compared to trying to find my way back into this suddenly cold and complicated world.
My adult son has offered my 13 year old son and I to share a room in his home.
This will work but only temporarily.
He's a 13 year old boy.
I don't know where to turn for help.
Council for the homeless/share paid a few months rent for me prior to September so they say I can get more help.
I have the ability to drive for lyft but no money for insurance or gas and like I said, I'm close to losing my cat.
My name is Jennifer.
I am a single mother who just finished a long year of Colon cancer and Chemotherapy, and then a rare form of Polyneuropathy, which limited my ability to walk and use my hands.
(All during Covid)
I was terminated by my place of employment, as they decided that they did not want to accommodate my Chemotherapy schedule.
Life has been so incredibly difficult since then, that I barely have it in me to get out of bed each day. I am lost and I am desperate to find out how I can get through.
I was able to get unemployment up until September.
My last chemotherapy treatment was late June, though- and I was given my job back by a different company that I had worked for prior to the one that terminated me for cancer.
One week after I started that job, I developed severe Polyneuropathy.
I could not control my hands or do any tasks that required much use of them without severe pain. I could walk but I had no concept of where my feet were in space and time....it made me fall- A LOT.
I had extremely bad chemo brain, which left me unable to remember names, phone numbers, job instructions, and so much more.
I had to quit that job. But was told I was not eligible for disability because I was under 60 and could "technically" still work.
Unemployment ran out in September.
I'm high risk for Covid and terrified of the Vaccine, as I'm just now healing in my whole body. And trying to recover from the colon cancer.
I have, however, applied for over 60 jobs.
I lost my food stamp benefits today over a missing document that I actually sent to the state, but they have not processed yet.
I'm facing eviction, as my rent is not paid for October and November...my car is about to be repossessed for November and December's payments. All those because my employer fired me.
Mt furniture is about to be taken because I'm late and my power bill is over 500 bucks.
I get 500 a month child support and that's all, and nothing from my employer when they fired me or non from disability from colon cancer.
I am at a loss.
Cancer was nothing compared to trying to find my way back into this suddenly cold and complicated world.
My adult son has offered my 13 year old son and I to share a room in his home.
This will work but only temporarily.
He's a 13 year old boy.
I don't know where to turn for help.
Council for the homeless/share paid a few months rent for me prior to September so they say I can get more help.
I have the ability to drive for lyft but no money for insurance or gas and like I said, I'm close to losing my cat.