CHAPTER 4
Ruby woke up the next morning, her headache just as fierce as before. When Connie asked her to quit her job at County to take care of Grandma Lucy, it took time to warm up to the idea. Ruby had never done in-home nursing before, and she wasn’t sure how much she loved the idea of living where she worked. There were financial considerations too. Connie agreed to pay her out of pocket for the first two months while they waited for all the insurance paperwork to get filed, but if the state came back and decided Grandma Lucy wasn’t sick enough to require round-the-clock care, Connie couldn’t afford to pay her indefinitely. If Ruby had been searching for financial security, she would have never left County.
On the other hand, she had grown to love Grandma Lucy, the eccentric old woma
