Many people with disabilities rely on home health aides to get by everyday. But one woman who has cared for others for 25 years is learning the hard way why most aides don’t stick around for long. She developed a hernia from lifting her wheel-chair bound employers, but can’t pay for the surgery she desperately needs because her job pays little and doesn’t include health benefits, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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