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home health agency
Coverage of home health agency in the Nexus archive.
- I worked 2 jobs while going to school. One of them was being my grandpa's paid caregiver.
Tammy Shanklin, a licensed certified nursing assistant in Illinois, balances caregiving for her grandfather while working at an assisted living facility and attending cosmetology school. She transitioned to being her grandfather's paid caregiver through a home health agency and graduated from cosmetology school in March 2025.
- A 33-year-old nurse thought her bleeding was caused by hemorrhoids. She was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer.
Bryce Ramsey dismissed blood in her stool for years, attributing it to hemorrhoids and childbirth, but was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at 33. She underwent surgery to remove part of her colon and 13 lymph nodes, followed by chemotherapy, continuing to work throughout treatment.