ILEANA JOHNSON

This St. Patrick’s day my sweet mom is 90 years old. She is totally bed-ridden, dependent on a wheel chair. Her feet and hands have atrophie...

Mom's Hand Medicare/Medicaid finally allowed us today inside my mom’s nursing home. I have not set foot inside since March 14, 2020 when...

My dear mother whom we love and cherish is locked up in a prison not of her own making, in pain and suffering, on oxygen and not unders...

Today God gave me a profound lesson in faith, humanity, and prayer. After I drove for one hour with two very sore knees and the artifici...

  President Washington's dentures Mount Vernon Estate Museum As I am preparing to take mom to the dentist to replace the fourth ...

Mom turned 86 years young on St. Patrick’s Day. She is a skeletal figure of her former self but she has a strong will to live. Three weeks...

Healthcare is not a right, it is a service provided by doctors and nurses who went to school to learn how to care for a sick human being. ...

My beautiful Mom, 2016 Every time I go to the nursing home to see mom, I am reminded how self-absorbed and neglectful families have beco...

I opened the box carefully. I have not seen its contents since May of 1989 after my Daddy’s passing.   The round Pobeda watch with a blue ...

Handsome Bogart, 18-years old Photo: Ileana Johnson 2017 I used to think that it was rather morbid that my in-laws had purchased thei...

Photo:  Ileana Johnson 2015 Tonight, the much awaited Snowmageddon 2017 came in the form of a wicked icy slush. Nobody must have heard o...

It’s a lovely spring day with cool temperatures. It’s always cold right before Easter. The dense woods finally lost their dead leaves that...

Mom in Catoctin Mountain It’s Mother’s Day 2015. We drove by Catoctin Mountain, Maryland. It’s a verdant late spring with a balmy bathe...

My Beloved Mom The first golden day of autumn has become the cold, barren winter of my Mom’s life. A week ago I was planning to take ...