So - I'm back and ready to get right into making arrangements. There is far more scandal here as I'm learning. Seems the woman running the agency "Catherine" claims to have files missing from her office. Last year she claimed her hard drive crashed and she lost everything (everything incriminating). What nursing agency would not back everything up with their hard drive?

I'm willing to just walk away and scramble to arrange care rather than start a lengthy, expensive lawsuit. But I know this woman - she will be all over me shortly. I will not answer her calls or even the door. I must stay focussed on making arrangements. If she insists on meeting (she already has) - I will email her that there is nothing I am interested in meeting about and that I wish to be left alone. If she persists - I will consider it harassment. I want her to fulfill her obligations to us - finish out the next 25 days then leave.

The one worker who is talking to me has told me she has not told any of her other clients that they are closing. She has promised jobs to a couple of workers in a new company she is opening. But others know she is moving to the city - a couple of hours away.

It just makes me paranoid but also relieved that she will be gone.

I am making plans and phone calls. Testing the waters and trying to be creative. I have one worker committed to 4 days a week - this is not a bad start. I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.

Barb