So my only choice was to load to an earlier save from before the mission. I quicksave very regularly, but in my save data there were only my last 4 saves (all within the mission) and a few saves from like 3 weeks ago..
I thought well [censored] looks like I'll just have to fight through this mission somehow. BUT then I ran into a bug that prevents me from getting any further in the mission.
So basically I'm stuck in a location, can't fast travel, can't complete the mission, and can't upload a save from before without losing 3 weeks of progress.
Any ideas what I could do to fix this? I was very close to completing the story line so not feeling like starting over

Hopefully my explanation is understandable..