allie1448

So sorry it is lost and I really hope it turns up very soon

stitchofclass2

Theft is a real problem in nursing homes and other institutions. When we put my MIL in a nursing home for 9 days so that we could go on vacation someone stole her nightgowns. I had made 3 for her that hooked in the back so that I could more easily change her diapers. I made my own pattern too. The 2 I sent with her were stolen. The home offered to reimbursed me but that was no consolation. This is a problem. If you will steal from a nursing home, you will steal anything anywhere. I hope that your quilt is found.

#1piecemaker

Hope you find it. Sometimes things get mixed up in a nursing home. Especially in the laundry. did you put her name on it anywhere?

kaykwilts

Gosh..after reading all these posts, I think I will make it clear in my living will, and to my kids, that I don't want my life "extended" by going to a nursing home/assisted living home....think I would rather die in my own bed. All these stories, and the stories one hears/reads about the abuse of the elderly in these homes....well, think I'll just get onto the next life a little faster...and that's ok by me!! I would be terrified to have "strangers" look after me........and my things!!!

psychonurse

Hope you find it soom. When my mom was in a NH we had to go dowstairs to the laundry room and look through things ourselves to find missing items.

illinois

I knitted an afghan for my mother's birthday while she was in a nursing home. When I went to transfer her to a different facility, the afghan was nowhere to be found. I walked up and down the halls, glancing in each room to see if it had gone traveling. Nothing. I went to every nurses' station inquiring where the afghan could be. They checked linen closets, even went to laundry, but no afghan. Strange--it showed up on her bed in the new facility a couple of weeks later! I assume it went home with one of the workers at home #1 and somebody got a guilty conscience. Thank goodness!

illinois

Oops. Double click.

QuiltE

Sadly there are some not so good stories out there.

Gladly there are many good stories to be shared. And families who have been thankful for an interim home for their loved ones and the caring staff who made all their lives easier. Not everyone has the option to stay in their homes, and not every family has the ability to provide in-home care.

Let's not paint all care facilities with one brush stroke.

Remember bad news sells ... and unfortunately, not all the good news stories are shared as far and wide.

catmcclure

My mother was in a wheelchair and has some nice dresses. Two of the nicer ones disappeared from the nursing home. After that I took all her other dresses, a big black permanent marker, and wrote her name in letters 3 inches high on the back of the skirt. None disappeared after that.

izzybelle

so sorry-hope it gets found