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Thank you IVH!

Anyone out there who wants to grumble best not take on the Iowa Veterans Home here in Marshalltown. My Ray, a Korean veteran lived here until he moved to Heaven and now IVH is taking care of me.

Perfection or faultless issues are impossible in life because life is run by humans who themselves are not perfect or faultless.

Housekeeping is done cheerfully; dietary assistants make us feel good! Laundry personnel often know us by name. As a retired cook and caterer, I was certain to look skeptically at our fare! Well folks not to worry you would find little not to enjoy. My first serving of SOS (chipped beef on toast) this past week for breakfast, sooo good! We had strawberry applesauce, and of course no one can beat our blueberry muffins! We get homemade stuff all the time, they put a little cabbage in the Navy bean soup, yum!

Thingamajigs, bits and pieces, obstacles or stumbling blocks get solved.

We now have a tandem bicycle, residents can actually ride alongside a staff member, peddling if he/she chooses. A resident who used to fly fish, is allowed in a space where he can cast to his hearts delight and feel the action of what he once did as a fisherman.

Everything trickles up to Commandant Jodi Tymeson. Her staff, employees, vendors and her volunteers know each day she goes about OUR HOME collecting whatever is in the works, offers a solution, gains an awareness and if there is a problem solves it.

Do we ever have to wait? You bet, someone else was first! Do issues take long to solve, on occasion Yes! (usually because some part of equipment wasn’t available or a vendor was busy and would come soon. Life’s little nuisances just like everywhere in the world wherever you “Whom” may live.

We veterans and residents can be a bunch of renegades, a little eccentric either individually or in a bunch. Everyone of us has a story that has created this personality many times a challenge at best!

Some days we are tough on staff, vendors and even volunteers, I apologize for us … since I am certainly at fault, often it’s just a damn bad day, and a pity party was needed. Thank you all for rebounding and most importantly for continuing to care!

P.S. Root Beer floats this past weekend.

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