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Elder-caregivers

mahina

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10. I'm sorry to hear it. My Dad only finally went to the VA a year before he died

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 7, 2021, 06:28 AM

Jan 2021

But the good people there helped him get into a beautiful senior housing in our old neighborhood that looked over a baseball field where he could watch little league games and a community garden. It was a studio but he had everything he needed. It was a blessing.

He didn’t want anything to do with the VA from the time he came home till within a year if the end. He was also in the Special Forces in Vietnam and also was exposed to lots of Agent Orange.

Peace and good luck, aloha.

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I'm sorry to hear it. My Dad only finally went to the VA a year before he died mahina Jan 2021 #10

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