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GardenArtist: I could have done that when she was in IL, but now at the AL, not so easily, plus its 40 miles away and they have been gone for two days. They are a good size - she is so deaf she needed a larger, behind the ear with a tube and plug into her ears. I tore her apartment apart - every drawer, cabinet, pocket, under and inside everything. They are gone! After I left there yesterday I called AL and suggested they look in the beauty salon. They said the nurse would call me today about this but it is 12:30 and no call yet. I'm beginning to be upset about how much they do or don't notice - case in point, that she wasn't eating and lost 6 pounds. Shouldn't they have been noticing that sort of thing during the day, that she was not wearing her hearing aids, its pretty obvious as she is deaf as a rock without them - why was no one aware they were gone until the next morning when the aide went up to put them in? Shouldn't they have a record of taking them out the night before, putting them in the next day and narrowing down the time they were first missing? They said they even looked in the trash. I am really upset - at her, at them, at the whole thing. When she was in IL I ran around constantly because of those aids. I thought at least now in AL I would not have to do that - not for over $4000 a month.
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Amy, this is a wild shot and I don't know if it would work, but hearing aids have batteries and I believe they're metal. I've used metal detectors to pick up dropped staples and small metal items. If you or anyone can get a metal detector, you could sweep the place with it. It's obviously time consuming, but you might get lucky. I think I got mine at Harbor Freight.

Good luck.
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freqflyer. Mom was in IL for 9 years (although I campaigned for 4 years to move her!) That was when she went through her obsession with her bowels. She could buy MOM in the little store there and begged management not to sell it to her but they explained it was IL and they don't have the right to refuse her, nor was it fair to others to take it off the shelves. She would buy several bottles because she had it hidden all over her apartment and we used to search and take it away. But she always managed to get more or hide it somewhere we would miss. Her short term memory was bad for years so we know she didn't remember taking it, or took too much, then got the runs, cried about it - only to tell us the next day she hadn't gone in 4 days! I think she used to just chug it out of the bottle because sometimes she would use a whole bottle in a week. We moved her to AL in Feb, but she ruined her bowels with it so now, she loses control. The obsession with "poo" seems to be generational. I can remember my grandmother asking me if I "went" every time I saw her. I never understood why she had to know, or cared. lol!
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AmyGrace, so sorry to read about your visit with your Mom... I remember not long ago you were dealing with your own health issue, a broken ankle, that made it hard for you to get around.

Question, how does your Mom get her hands on milk of magnesia? Or was this something she did in her past? Decades age, gals my age used that to keep their weight down, which never made sense to me.

If she feels she needs something [hard habit to break] tell her Deer Park water works great, and you know of one store that sells it, make it sound like it is hard to get :)
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AmyGrace, big, big hug. I hate days like the one you're talking about. I really hate thinking about all that poo just sitting around. And I'm wondering if she might have flushed her hearing aids. I hope not! I hope they turn up. I personally wouldn't buy anymore after she has lost so many. They are too expensive to buy again and again. I like the idea of the big horn to the ear. I do wish someone would invent a hearing aid that didn't have to be cleaned or removed ever. That would be wonderful. The Lyrics are like that, but not good for someone with a lot of hearing loss.

I'm hoping the poo has been cleaned. Poor you! Poor AL staff. And poor Mother, too. I know that living like this is the pits for her, too.
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