oh patricia i'm so sorry to hear that ! do you have some other places you could teach, if it happens ? or would you be interested in doing something else ? you might have been joking, but maybe you could get hired on as a consultant by a publisher who doesn't have any idea how to make ebooks, but wants to...
i will be crossing my fingers for you and i hope it all works out for the best, whatever happens. please do let us know how things go.