stoppy
Assiduously Straight Man
Registered: 09/02/03
Posts: 12244
Loc: Saginaw, MI
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Recently daughter's MIL had a serious accident in her home, while carrying a stepladder she fell down a flight of stairs breaking her left arm and right wrist. the arm was imobilized and the wrist was pretty useless. She had to have help eating. She was hospitalized and after a few days she could grip a fork to eat but it was very difficult. The sponge grippers the hospital added were of little help to her. I turned
a couple of walnut handles for her silverware which she loved 'cause they helped with her ability to grip. Somebody stole them from her in the hospital.
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EightFingers
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Registered: 07/17/02
Posts: 19990
Loc: Kansas City, Mo USA
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Happens all the time. If you value it, don't take it to the hospital/nursing home/convolescent center/etc. When LOML was an active (doing patient care) RN she saw it happen all the time.
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badwhiskey
Colonel Mustard
Registered: 01/28/00
Posts: 14172
Loc: Upstate, NY
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Jeez, that sucks. Stealing something valuable is one thing, but stealing a personal aid like that is incomprehensible.
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Alan S
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Registered: 05/19/04
Posts: 2544
Loc: Shorewood, Wisconsin
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It is sad that someone would do that. But it does say that you may have designed something that more people would find useful.
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kludge
Lengthiest title wannabe Grizzly bear teaser & odd longer rambling question poser w/ an identity cri
Registered: 07/02/08
Posts: 7196
Loc: Santa Rosa, Ca
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Alan S said:
It is sad that someone would do that. But it does say that you may have designed something that more people would find useful.
I was thinking the same thing....
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FrankAtl
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Registered: 10/09/07
Posts: 1480
Loc: Cumming, Ga.
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Scary thing is these are the same people that you are entrusting your life to! 
Frank
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imapseudonym
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Registered: 04/02/07
Posts: 1024
Loc: Burlington, VT
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That's a shame.
Are you sure they weren't just left on the silverware and innocently taken away with a meal tray?
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WOODMAC
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Registered: 05/24/06
Posts: 96
Loc: Fla panhandle
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Usually the visitors are the thieves, not the staff!
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EightFingers
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Registered: 07/17/02
Posts: 19990
Loc: Kansas City, Mo USA
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WOODMAC said:
Usually the visitors are the thieves, not the staff!
Not true. Sorry.
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Don
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Registered: 03/29/05
Posts: 55
Loc: Huntsville, AL
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Same thing happened when my older sister was in a nursing home. Staff took a coat and one dress. Even her name was written in waterproof ink on the inside of the collars. And no, it was not visitors. Sad, very sad.
Don
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