Helper turns nurse
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Midwife delivers career switch at 45
Published: Monday | March 16, 2009
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If life begins at 40, as is the mantra of the archetypal career woman, Verona Grant-Brissett strapped up to get in the game just after the opening whistle had blown.
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But time has never been on her side.
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A topsy-turvy life from serving as a pre-teen surrogate mother and cleaning floors to survive meant sacrificing her dreams early on. Later, Grant-Brissett was told she was too old to don her whites and become a nurse. Guess who’s laughing now?
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Mar 16 2009