Later that evening, my husband and I were enjoying an old family sitcom about a father and daughter who ventured into the woods to pick edible herbs for his daughter's school assignment. When they returned back home the daughter said "I can't find my assignment papers!" She suddenly realized that she left them in the woods 30 miles away. That night a storm was approaching, but her father insisted on going back into the woods to retrieve his daughter's papers. Coincidentally, that very night I heard the sound of Mom opening and closing the dresser drawers. “Mom, what are you looking for?” “I can’t find my teeth!”
I just stood there staring at her while my brain took a minute to process what my ears were hearing. I did a rapid rewind back to the restaurant. "Mom!" I said, dreading her answer. "Did you put your teeth back in while we were in the restaurant?" She grinned showing gaps of missing bottom teeth. That's all we need, disappearing denture drama. Suddenly it occurred to me that when I turned my attention to pay for our meal, she must have plopped her bottom dentures also in her coffee cup. "Oh no..." I thought cringing, "and that was four hours ago!"
I rushed to call the restaurant hoping and praying that by some miracle a kind person found her dentures in the coffee cup and put them aside. To my relief the person who waited on us was still there and she did in fact find them and held on to them for us. With only ten minutes to spare before the restaurant closed, Angelo and I drove into the night to get back the tossed teeth. Whew! The waitress gave them to us nicely wrapped up in gauze while laughing, “Girl" she said, "I’m glad that I saw these. I have a pair myself, so I know that these things ain’t cheap!” She got that right! Now I know better.
I read somewhere that it's common for someone with dementia to lose their dentures. With memory loss comes denture loss. Whenever I take her out to eat, prior to leaving the restaurant, The first thing I now will ask is, “Do you have everything, including your teeth?”
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