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