Mom sleeps with her teeth in. She's had a bad bout with Bronchitis the past week.

She wakes couging on her side.

One morning, she couldn't find her bottom plate. It was just "gone".

Not being a morning person at ALL, I wanted to wake up before the big search. She wasn't having that at all....she needed to find them right now.

I searched the trash can by her bed. Then took everything off the bed, and put new sheets on. No bottom plate appeard.

By this time, I'm nuts, still in my pjamas, no coffee yet. I told her...."Mom, we will find them, but right now, I HAVE to have a break.

I go in my room, start to get dressed and make my bed, and low and behold there is a bottom set of dentures on my bed. Looks like one of the dogs brought it to my bed.

This just didn't happen once. The second time, I told her she needs to keep them in the denture bath at night.

Me, I wear upper and lower partials. The other day, I got very little sleep, and went for a nap when she did. I did like I've done, hundreds of times before, and took my partials out and laid them on the bedside table. Now, you'd really think I'd know better......I get the duh huh award for the year.

I wake only to find my brand new upper partials there. Ok, not going to drive myself nuts on another search, as its been a horrible week already.

2 days later I find them under my bed....thank god, when dog got ahold of them, just not that interesting.

Ok, now, if mine come out at all, they go in denture bath too.

The Rockweiler mom brought with her, ate one of her hearing aids, the first month she got it. After spending that much on those things, she does put it in the case at night.

My 2 dogs have NEVER messed with partials when I was too tired to get back up and put them up. I think we have a tooth fetish with the dog Mom brought with her.

I can laugh about it now, but for days, I shook my head, and wanted to run.

Nothing like kids and dogs to taech us how to put stuff away!

Jayne

Oh wow, littlerattie.....I feel for you.

Since the last of the teeth finding, from the disappearing, all I can say is this dog is teaching the both of us, if teeth come out, put them where they belong!

LOL.....lesson learned!

Oh yeah, those lost body parts!
My FIL wears a prosthetic eye. Well, he needed a new one so it fell to me to find a ocularist and get a new eye.
We (me, my 6 kids him and I) drove 70 miles ONE WAY and spent 8 hours getting fitting done, etc, then back home. Not once, but TWO round trips in less than a week! And a month later he accidentally flushed it down the toilet! $2000.00 literally down the drain.
Then, that company would not make him another eye because they didn't want to deal with him again (now you get a bit of what we have to deal with!) because FIL didn't want to pay, and generally did not behave in a businesslike manner.
So, we found another, the only other, ocularist in MN to do the job. Oy. FIL didn't want to pay for that eye, either. I finally laid down my foot and told him PAY THE BILL. So FIL reluctantly pulled out his check book and started to write out a check.
I saw it and it and thought "man, that looks like it has gone through the wash". After FIL sat there not remembering how to write the check I asked him if he wanted me to fill it out. Sure! Then I took the checkbook and horrer overcame me. It was not water, but pee. Rings and rings of dried pee. Lordy, I wanted to crawl in a hole and hide.
I wrote out the check and pulled one of the Drs aside and told him that the check was soaked in pee and said if he wanted a clean one I could send it to him. I guess they had enough of FIL and said "No, this is ok."
Oh man, i felt mortified! And soooo glad to get out of there! If he loses this eye he might just have to do without. We went through both ocularists in the area! And neither want him back.
Life.
Jayne

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