Granny's teeth are missing!

Here's a tip:  If your loved one is going into a care home, it'd be wise to mark all their personal belongings (and I MEAN PERSONAL) with a permanent marker.

When my husband's dear ol' Nana (age 94) was in an assisted living facility she misplaced her falsies (I am referring to her false teeth!) and was at her wit's end.  We looked high and low and then just before some other relatives were going to take the entire toilet off to see if it had somehow become stuck in the pee trap, I located the chompers hanging on the trim of the crocheted blanket hanging off her bed!

Having the teeth marked wouldn't have helped us find them any quicker but if they had been left in a sugar bowl by mistake -and don't laugh- I have found a pair there once as well, or some other location, we could have returned them to their rightful owner, quicker.

Once, I was looking after a lady when her $2,000 hearing aid fell on the floor and was  run over by a wheel chair and then stepped on by a 200 pound orderly.  Sadly, having her name on it wouldn't have spared her the destruction, but if it had say slipped under a table and gone missing, and then located, they would have known exactly whose ear to pop it into.

Eye glasses constantly go missing in seniors residences.  They are put down or borrowed or pilfered by some wandering soul.  They have been found under couch cushions and in the medicine cabinets of other residents.

Television remotes go walkabout and lipstick tubes go a.w.o.l.  Toothbrushes get used by other people, sorry to make you grimace, but they do, and so on and so forth.

You think you have problems with mismatched socks in your home? Think how they feel in the central laundry room of the seniors home!  Getting names onto the collars with a laundry marker pen* is essential if you want to see your loved one's clothes again.  These pens can be purchased at almost any store and are a small price to pay (less than $3) to keep expensive garments in granny's closet.




*Note: Laundry marker pen is not to be confused with permanent marker which will just bleed into the fabric if used for name marking on clothes.  Good brand of this type of pen is called SCRUBBY permanent laundry marker by DRI MARK