Wanda / CeCe ??????

Where are they? Did Cece have her next surgery? Wanda - surgery? haven't heard from you ladies anyone know hugs, Britt

I'm here Britt. My life can become so complicated, it's hard to explain. As you know, I run a large nursing home and sometimes I feel like that puts a big bulleyes on my forehead. The short version of my latest saga is that I cancelled a contract with a company that was providing therapy services (physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy.) They in turn filed an emergency injunction with the court system to prevent me from discontinuing their services. It was a mad rush to prepare my defense. They lost, but now they are filing a law suit against me and two of our sister facilities. They were making $90-$100k per month just from us (and about the same from the other two centers combined) They aren't willing to give it up easily! They are playing hardball and want to see my demise. They blame me for their therapist resigning and going with the new provider so they could continue to work in our building. I can't help it that they like working in our building and are more loyal to us than to them. In the meantine I changed psychology & psychiatric service providers too and the psychologist came in and started a rumor that our building had been sold and I was leaving. So I had to meet with all my staff on all three shifts to dispell those rumors before they jumped ship! It's all very hard to explain in detail. Just know that my life is stressful on a good day and these haven't been good days! Thanks for your concern. I apreciate you checking on me! Wanda

Wanda - sounds like you have a lot on your shoulders right now! Hang in there and thanks for taking the time to let us know - you are alive and kicking!! - we miss you! do you know where cece is? hugs, Britt

Wanda, I'm sorry you are going through such a stressful time at work! I know your boss is very glad he gave you a bigger raise at this point! He knows and we here on the board know that you can handle this! You had your reasons for doing what you've done and you didn't just do it for fun! You will be able to present your facts and get through whatever process is involved. Hopefully, they will back down and you won't have to go through too much! Good luck! I had to testify all the time in my job and it was never easy having an attorney try to get the best of you. Just the facts, Wanda, just the facts!!!!! CeCe

I did have very good reasons for making the change and these people's actions after the fact shows their true nature. We are just their clients. Customers come and customers go--it's not meant to be a permanent relationship. Maybe next time they will work harder at maintaining that relationship! I didn't know you used to have to testify for your job. That's the worst part of my job! I hate it! But, I am getting pretty good at it. It's not something I ever wanted to become skillful at!

Britt, Thanks for asking about me! Glad to know I was missed! I just read Wanda's reply and, thank goodness, my reasons for being absent from the board are not as stressful as hers! Poor Wanda! My surgery is next week and I've been getting all sorts of things arranged. Heck, even arranging for the dogs and cat to stay in the pet resort has been hectic. This place cost a fortune and demands fecal exams within 30 days of the visit and very recent bordatella shots so I've been running back and forth to the vet. Then, they called and said some of the stuff was out of date so back to the vet I went for print outs of every thing so I could prove they were up to date! I had blood work for myself and the results were supposedly faxed to my PS but I had to go all over the hospital o get a copy for myself. I'm also picking up prescriptions and getting all sorts of other things done. Hubby left this morning for Cincinnati on business after we worked all weekend on our stairs. We are redoing them and I spent all day on Saturday transforming black wrought iron spindles into pewter antiqued looking nicer spindles with antiqued gold colored edges. It looks great but took forever because each spindle has one or two of these twisted ball-things that were HARD to paint with a tiny brush! We are living with no hand rails during this reconstruction and now with bare wood treads as he redoes those in oak as well. The walls are looking good though. Hubby made some sort of platform to get up to the ceiling to paint it and the walls. I couldn't bear to watch! I'm nervous about my surgery and even thought about not going through with it but I know my arms would continue to bother me. The breasts - not so much - they look good in a bra. Still, if I'm in the OR, might as well have it all done. I just wish tomorrow was the day so I could quit dreading it. I know recovery will be TOUGH but in a couple of weeks, I'll start to feel like myself again. Again, thanks for asking Britt! CeCe