When our LO was in the hospital recently, I found on her second day there a pink caplet on the floor that looked like it had been in someone's mouth and spit out. It didn't look familiar, so I thought it might have been something missed by housekeeping and belonged to another patient. I put it on the windowsill, which was far enough from her bed that she couldn't reach it.

Well, YESTERDAY, I finally got around to vacuuming out my car. In the floor, I found several pills. One was another of these pink caplets, and there was a yellow tab that I'm pretty sure was her sinemet.

Soooo... I go over to the skilled nursing where she's doing rehab, and searched her walker. Yep. There was a stash of random pills.

She had been spitting them out and hiding them in the side pouch of her walker! A few had fallen out when I had her walker in the back seat of my car. The pink one was her Ambien. That's not one that they even give her routinely; she has to ask for it if she can't sleep. And it wasn't even a medication we particularly wanted her to have. She had a walleyed fit and insisted on a prescription for a sleeping pill.

And, yes, I TOTALLY narced her out to the nurse. She denies spitting out her pills and hiding them. Yeah, right. I'm very certain that the nurses at two different facilities were conspiring to frame her.

We explained that she doesn't have to take the Ambien. "I know that!" Then, why are you asking for it, pretending to take it, and then spitting it out? "I didn't!" Argh.

I take it that everyone NOW is making SURE she swallows medication right then and there and opens up for a mouth check! Of course she didn't do it, Torp - that's just one of those things that they do... Seems like it's all planned and premeditated, but she can't keep her stuff straight in her head... Maybe she remembers doing it and is denying it, or maybe she really doesn't remember. The important point is that she even did it in the first place: permanent "mind moved; no forwarding address" kind of a thing...
Bless her heart... and YOURS for being such a good detective! It's all in a day's work, eh? Would that the pros were as observant and watchful...