Oh, Kristi.
I am so, so, SO sorry. Leaving the classroom was such a wrench for me--and I CHOSE to do it--it must be a hundred times worse to be forced to leave.
I just don't even have words for how sad I am, for you and for those kids who needed you and your heart in their lives.
Tutoring is a great idea, but once you move, also contact the districts around you about being a 'medical leave' teacher. Most districts who have these positions have them under a union contract, so all your teacher benefits and stuff would be the same as if you were still in a regular classroom, even though you'd be going from student to student. The downside of that job is that most students aren't on medical leave for long enough to really get a rapport going, but the pay would probably about the same as you're used to getting after 15 years in the classroom.
HOWEVER: This may be even BETTER for the immediate future:
After 15 years, I'm sure you have files and files FULL of units, lesson plans, activities, etc. You need to get onto TeachersPayTea
chers.com, which is kind of a teacher's eBay for lesson plans that I just heard about. You can start dispersing your best units and worksheets, etc. out there for other teachers, particularly new teachers, to use and learn from! Get all your lessons out, re-keyboard them and clean them up, convert them to pdfs and start selling them. Things are about to go to 'slow' time here in my office, and I'm planning on doing just that with some of my literature units, and weekly vocab sets.
If unit and lesson planning are something you like to do, you can still create them for others to enlighten kids with. I love creating study guides and tests and stuff--I still help Debra do hers. She hates it. I'm exactly the opposite--I don't mind making up the lessons in the least, it's the correcting I object to.
Now go--get out those files and start figuring out which ones those first year Spanish teachers are going to need when school starts next week!