The after life of being a caregiver sucks

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So I have been my grandma's caregiver for the last six years. I did everything that a nursing home could do plus more without a dime coming my way. Between her IRA account and her social security benefits, she made too much for any assistance for any government agency or company that helps caregivers out. She made sure anything I needed was covered though. She had dementia and Alzheimer's both as well as several other health problems. I just couldn't see putting her in a nursing home because not only everything you hear on the news, but the cost. Not even just for those reasons. My grandma and I were always close. I have always been the one to take care of her so naturally when I realized that she couldn't tell if she took her pills or not even though I sorted them out for her each week in a weekly morning and night pill sorter. She was an amazing women. She even lived through fracturing her neck so bad they considered it a break in 2010. She lived with only one kidney since 2005 that was only functioning at 65%. I was left with nothing after Feb 24th of this year. My mom and uncle inherited everything. My mom has been amazing but I feel horrible for having to depend on her right now because she works hard. My uncle seemed to be more worried about my grandma's money before she even passed away. He even had the nerve to ask about it on her bedside in the hospice house. I wasn't even allowed to grieve her death before he started hounding me about who to get a hold of and all that. After 6 years I feel like I've lost a part of me and it seems like my mom and I are the only ones that actually care. Here it is the end of April and we still haven't been able to do anything to remember her by because my uncle's family can't ever take the time to do anything. They all took their grievance time at work off to go shopping and other stuff like that. Now here I am, not having worked in 6 years and the only reference I have for what I've done for work in the last 6 years is my mom. Like that goes over too well with companies. It's like a crime that I made sure my grandma was taken care of properly. Now here I am on the internet trying find anything and everything to make money.