Things keep getting worse...or better ...

The home repair people showed up asking for cashier's checks for $120,000, claiming the original $30,000 estimate wasn't included in the rest of the work -- which they never told me. Anyway, the contractor "kindly' drove my wife and son to the bank to get the checks (I'm home in bed after going to the hospital for my heart) and something seemed odd and I'm not sure exactly what happened except the police was called, the contractor realized that and ran, abandoning my wife and son with no way to get home. The police evidently caught the contractor fleeing. No idea what's going on. The police came here and I felt like an idiot telling them step-by-step what happened. And they're looking into it. Meanwhile, someone from the contractors keeps calling, but we're not picking up.

And now I'm headed for bed with my new prescription for depression/anxiety and one to hopefully let me sleep.