Interview Essay

Marian Alli White
HEA 109
Assignment 5
4/12/09.

Interview
My interviewee name is Marian Alli. She is seventy-five years old; she is my mother-in-law, rose in Africa (Nigeria), now lives in America and separated from her husband many years ago and became a widow last year. She have six children, works has a small scale business woman in her past year and presently living with her daughter and babysit two children with her grandchildren. She was a very hardworking woman, enjoys being around families, she was a Christian and a GOD fearing woman, believes in the doctrine of Christianity. Her health status while she was   in Nigeria was good because she has families around, have her business running good , takes care of her children , close friends to discuss issues with when bored, take vacations to visit her children in different          
Cities and states that relax her and make her feel happy but being in America today, she is not able to travel back and forth or visit her other children in United State if need to travel by Air. She did not have her age mate to interact with , only in church or her prayer groups which she really likes and her grandkids that keeps motivating her because sometimes she feel bored and misses her friends, neighbors, loved ones and other families in Africa . She is waiting on her immigration papers so that she can travel back home to visit friends and families which contribute to her health problem now because she likes being independent without disturbing other people for things needed.
Presently, she has High Blood Pressure and Hypertension; she is on medication to treat the diseases and to try to eat healthy foods and exercise. The chronic issues she had dealt with is her separation from her husband and being a single mother, raising six children by herself and going through difficult times in her past. Firstly, she was not treated nicely in the health care system because she is a foreigner., she fell down on the snow and...