noahcam--how ever did you manage without your glasses?
If I even drop mine on the floor, I'm i deep doo...Can't see to find them unless a light reflects on them. That's called 'nearsighted'. You have to be NEAR to see. <LOL>
Vickie--Can you take out the Medicare Card, anything else with a SSN on it? Actually, I think that it would be worse to lose those (identity theft) than a credit card. In my state, all you are responsible for if a credit card is stolen is about $50; identity theft could be much more of a headache. I used to put in the grocery store frequent buyer cards and other meaningless stuff to pad out the wallet and make it look like it always did. That way, if it was lost, it wouldn't be such a big deal. Maybe take out one at a time and replace with something else, so it will be less noticeable?
well we've been thu all of the above,cancelled credit cards,called banks an stopped accounts,but one of the biggest things that she loses is her half of the dog,she takes the dog for a walk about ten times a day an more often that not when she returns the dog go's off in a corner an lays down,at which point LO begins searching for her half of the dog,Have you see the dog? Hmmm well not your half but my half is layin under the dining room table,this morning she has lost her gloves so her walk shouldn't take very long since its in the lower 20s,what a journey
Glad to know your 1/2 of the dog is accounted for lol My hb has several pairs of gloves--all of which might be lost at the same time; I find them all over. A friend gave him a warm pair for Christmas. He said, "I have gloves." She said, "Well, put a pair by each door, and you'll have them ready when you go outside." He told our daughter: "That woman w/short hair who drives a tractor or truck sometimes gave me some gloves. She said I could keep them for my very own. She's nice." She's 1/2 of the couple who farm near us and is aware of hb's vasd and yes, she's nice--so's her other 1/2.
I'm going to claim that losing gloves is no big deal. I always buy black ones for myself. Each pair is as much the same as previous ones as I can find. Right now I have 3 gloves, all for the left hand. I don't think I have dementia, but I do wonder sometimes. Fortunately, I also have one pair of mittens.
I bought my daughter some red gloves for Christmas and got a pair for myself. Then I saw some for sale for $2 apiece - nice fleece ones with palm reinforcements and got two more pair. Plus we already HAD a pair apiece. We now have enough gloves for several years (at the zoo, we wear red jackets or shirts so we accessorize with red).
I noticed a couple of days ago we are missing a cup from a set of four! DH said maybe it was broken. We never used these cups so it would be hard to break one!
Here is another device that can be attached to an item like a pocketbook that is repeatedly lost: http://www.x-tremegeek.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productid=3200315&sk=COSMO91G
I would need devices for almost everything my DH has. A week ago he "lost" his wallet. Somehow it ended up inside his T-shirts in one of his drawers. A couple of days ago it was his nail clippers, found then in a drawer in his bathroom after 2 days of searching. They are just the latest but I expect there will be more lost items as time goes by!
for years i had one of these wallets for DH. it beeps if one of the credit cards /drivers license or such is missing and lets you know something is out of place and missing. it worked really well for us in earlier stages and DH still wanted to carry a wallet. i cant tell you how many times once we were back in the car it would be beeping. he'd left his credit card or ID in the store! they arent very expensive and DH loved his. i must warn that they love to play with it and reorganize them too but it was quite a help to keep up with stuff in his wallet. divvi
You all crack me up! Lloyd has to touch EVERYTHING! Then, of course, he has to carry the things off. The remote is his favorite. Then it's shoes. We find shoes all over the house and it is only ever half a pair. I tried to tell him if he took both, he would never be blamed, but you know how comprehension goes. He also went through a thing digging in our lock box under the bed all the time. I finally took out the really important stuff and moved it to the file cabinet. Then I freaked out trying to find titles to the cars and found I had tucked them inside his will in the file cabinet. I just hope we can't get AD by osmosis or we are all screwed!
I think he out smarted everybody. He simply waited until you looked in a spot and then when you weren't watching he would get them from where they were and move them to the spot where you had just looked and then when you looked in another spot he moved them again. He probably was having a great time and a good laugh. And we think we are the ones in control. LOL
I think it's time to bring this back - we all need a few laughs! Our dog, Milie, wears a harness and I only take it off when we go to bed. Two days ago, I came downstairs mid-afteroon and she was sitting with Dh in his recliner. I got her food to feed her and she jumped down - and I saw she didn't have her harness on. She ate, I looked for the harness - couldn't find it. Asked Dh if he took it off her and he didn't know what I was talking about. I have turned the whole downstairs upside-down, went through the garbage, freezer, frig, washer/dryer, even turned his recliner over; all drawers and cabinets....everywhere I know to look - and some that I don't!. Haven't found it yet - and I wondered if it met up with the traveling pajamas and other lost/misplaced items!
tee hee cute Vickie! I just found the pack of Fishermen's friends that I had convinced myself I was a dough head to have lost things yet again...in his shorts I was washing. Sneaky. I am picturing a while light and asking St. Tony to look for the harness. ( :
Vickie,I spend more time searching for things than I should,but it bugs me when I can't find something.Then it will turn up 3 or 4 monthe later.Sonny has been hiding things in his off season coat pockets,so now that is the first place I look,but he caught on to me and somehow found a new hiding place.How can they be so clever when theit mind isn't supposed to be working?He also likes to take just one of a pair.Especially with socks and gloves,always seems to be the right one,why?
Oh, I needed this. I spend at least half a day looking for something. I think if this was a job, I would be so rich. My DH always says "I didn't move that, someone else did". I am not sure who is coming in the house and doing these things, but I wish they would stop. We had a pair of glasses missing for a year. When DH was in the yard he found them. Well, they are missing again. We have separate vanities and sinks. My toothbrush and brushes are always missing. I have learned how to go into the closet, stand where I think he would have, and just look from right to left up and down. Sometimes it works, I will see the object. He loses things in coat pockets. He will zip the pockets and then can't figure out which pocket the item is in. I needed this post. What is it with always arranging things. And when they do nothing can be found.
vickie i hope its not the thunder jacket next! haha. yes it will eventually show but its creepy the way things go missing. i said once my cell phone went missing and i looked and looked it was just panic. i knew it was in the house somewhere. it finally dawned on me to call the dang cell from my landline *duh) and i could hear it ringing faintly. i found it inside DH depends by playing a mental game of hot and cold. haha. thank goodness he was dry.. :))))))) hope you find it soon.
Just read this thread from the top and laughed all the way through. I too spend a lot of time searching for things. I used to try to have him carry a cell phone figuring that someone could call me if he got lost. When it disappeared I didn't worry because I figured it would turn up. It did, in the load of clothes he had put through the washer. The second one never did reappear, and by the time I got him a Track phone he has forgotten how to use it. Couldn't even figure out how to answer it.
Now its wallets,keys from a chain around his neck,jackknife, nail clippers, glasses and things too numerous to mention. Oh well, what else would I do with my day?
You know, it's interesting. Prior to his DX, he was forever losing things; and for the next 2-3 years. Then it seemed to stop. He very seldom misplaces or loses things now - 9 years later! Except for Millie's harness!
Well, I walked into the bathroom a little while ago and the toilet paper and the spindle were missing. I did find them after a quick search. That was a first.
DH has always lost things, but they were his things.
I just found a favorite knife that has been missing for 4 years! In my deep cleaning, that I have been going at for two weeks, there it was in a box of HIS goodies!!
Tony Tony look around, What has lost has now been found..
Remember the wallet that went missing last year / early this year...can't remember when...oh dear! Well still missing...and I have deep cleaned, changed things around...no wallet.
Harness found! Hanging under a jacket which was hanging on a coat rack in the foyer. He never even goes in there! I did check the jacket pockets - but didn't look UNDER the jacket! My bad. There's hope for the 2 wallets, LFL!
My husband lost a wallet about a year ago. Never found it. Now I know I bought some Christmas gift bags, but they are nowhere to be found. A couple of weeks ago I had put a packet of spaghetti seasonings on the counter to use for dinner. It disappeared. I finally found it by accident in our son's top dresser drawer about a week later. Only reason I even looked in there was because I was putting some of our son's personal stuff away while he is out of the country.
Just found the cell phone DH lost nearly a year ago. It was in the basement in a basket on one of the workbenches. I cancelled the service after a few months and got him a tracfone that he never could use, so I guess I can just throw the cell phone away. Does anyone know of anyone I could donate it to?