Rodney Stevens

A Yamba resident who lost her lower denture for five days was so delighted when her Wesley Mission homecare cleaner located her missing teeth, she wanted to say a massive thank you.

92-year-old Anastatia Murphy said she was sitting watching television when she took out her lower denture and misplaced it, and after searching for the next five days without any luck, she made an appointment to get another denture made.

“I was just sitting there watching television, and I must have taken them out and not realised that I had done it,” she said.

“I’d searched the place myself for five days to try and find my teeth, I’d searched everywhere.

“I could still eat, but it wasn’t the same because I couldn’t chew the food properly without my lower denture.”

When her cleaner, Serena Robson of Wesley Mission’s homecare program came to clean her home last Wednesday, January 31, Mrs Murphy said she mentioned she had lost her denture, and it wasn’t long before it was found.

“She is a wonderful cleaner, I don’t stay much in the house when she is cleaning, and I said to her I’d lost my teeth,” she said.

“So, she said come in and sit down and watch the television, and when I sat down, she said what’s that, and there were my teeth, they had fallen down the side of my chair.

“She is just so nice, she doesn’t expect me to do anything, and just accepts me for who I am.

“The people from Wesley Mission are so good, they do what they can to try and help you.”

Mrs Murphy said she was also grateful that through Serena’s help, she had also saved a considerable amount of money getting her lower denture replaced.

“I just wanted to tell people in the district about Wesley Mission and how wonderful they are in their ways of looking after elderly people,” she said.