CHICAGO (CBS) – Nicholas Rizo spent months in a hospital crib waiting for a home care nurse to take his case so he could make memories with his brothers at their house in west suburban Montgomery.
“We were able to bring him home in October,” said Kathleen Flynn, the clinical director at Aveanna Healthcare , a nursing agency that looked for someone to help the Rizo family.
Flynn said they were “so excited” when the Rizos found some help on their own by circulating flyers.
“A family can post all of the little, intricate details about their child on Facebook that a company cannot do,” Flynn said.
Nicholas’ family also shared a website with CBS 2. They didn’t have full nursing coverage as of the airing of this story, so the hunt continued.
Sarah Weston’s mother, Amy, has also been constantly recruiting.
Her pitch: “Want to come work for a really cute little 7-year-old? Because we’ve got lots of openings.”