She was her sister’s caregiver her whole life + now she’s a nurse at Children’s of Alabama

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While her classmates at Spain Park High School in Hoover were bouncing from one after-school activity to the next, Jada King was coming home to take care of her sister Dejá, who was diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis at six months old.

Caring for Dejá for most of her life, Jada was destined for a career in helping others—which is how she landed at job in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s of Alabama.

Here’s her story.

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