I'm sorry to hear about the death of your mom and also the sudden loss of your job, you must be not having a very great time now.
I hope that you can excuse certain comments that others made that may not have understood about your condition that you were allergic to diary milk. Although I'm very new to this forum, I do appreciate the postings that you've made, I felt that they were very helpful so we wouldn't want to lose anyone like you to stop posting here.
I made my homemade yogurt with soy milk though I think I'm not allergic to diary milk. I don't know which is bad, the soy milk or the diary milk, still need to do further research. Or maybe you care to comment.