It was a joyful Christmas in Kentucky in 2023, and life finally seemed to be smiling on Leydis Fernandez. At 30, she had passed the board exam to earn her medical assistant’s license and landed a full-time receptionist’s job. The American dream felt close enough to touch.
Then everything changed.
Just as Fernandez stepped into her new role at work, her 22-month-old daughter, Nicole Casellas, began having a hard time walking…