Has anyone ever lost their rectal thermometer, and had someone find it ?

Many years ago, one of my girlfriends and I were playing with her old rectal thermometer that she had used on her kids. One of her daughters was cleaning her mom's room, and discovered it sitting around, with some remaining Vaseline on it. She started asking plenty of questions, and my embarrassed girlfriend told her that she had been taking care of the neighbor's baby....or something like that.

No. During my infant and toddler years and when my temperature had to be taken, my mom always kept the oral and the rectal thermometers put away up high in the kitchen cabinet along with the meds and they all stayed there until needed.

No never have lost my rectal thermometer

I know we had a rectal thermometer in our house when I was little because my mother would used it to take my temperature over her lap in the living room. Eventually it either broke or was otherwise disposed of because I never came across it. Never bothered to ask about it, either. I often replay a scenario in which I found that thermometer some years later in a medicine cabinet or kitchen drawer, and started taking my own rectal temps with it.