I heard my wife let out a shriek one afternoon, so I looked at her, she was staring at her ring - minus the diamond!
So I asked what she had been doing, and she said she was moving stuff in the freezer...
It took me a LONG TIME, and a LOT OF INSTRUCTION to my wife for her to carefully handle everything I took out of the freezer... eventually, I had it all out and mostly melted when I finally saw the diamond. Sitting on the bottom of the freezer surrounded by ice chunks.
She had it reset in a more robust setting and never lost it again.
She passed a few years after that, and I kinda went downhill from there, but am slowly getting over it.
True story.
You gave your lovely wife a tremendous gift by finding her diamond...something that represented someone unbelievably precious to her.
I’m so sorry for your loss, FRiend.
I am so sorry for your loss.
A similar thing happened to me. One day I was in a hurry and moving laundry from the washer into the dryer when I heard “ping, ping!” It was the diamond from my engagement ring!
I frantically looked everywhere for it, in the machine, in each piece of clothing that I was moving. I actually took apart the washing machine and put it back together after determining the diamond was not there. That took me almost a whole day to accomplish. It was sad time. I went without my engagement ring.
Then one day almost a year later, I got into a cleaning frenzy in the laundry room, and realized that somehow I had not looked around the dryer. I found a yardstick, and slid it back and forth underneath the dryer. Within a few seconds, the diamond surrounded by dryer dust bunnies rolled out! I was quite ecstatic and said a thank you prayer for it’s recovery. Yes, we got a sturdier mounting after that.
I’m sorry to hear about your wife, but your story is a neat one.
Lost one of the stones out of my expensive Mother’s ring, I was really upset, had one of those life time replacement policies, they replaced it, a week later same stone was gone, I ended up with a new replaced ring. Mine go in a glass on the bedroom dresser when I need to use bare hands and that glass sits in one place all the time. More women need to make that a practice. Never take your rings off in the bathroom or kitchen. Put them in a glass on the bedroom dresser.
Then there is my friend Lynn, she had to have her rings cut off that were well beyond $5K before surgery as she’d gained so much weight and had swollen hands. Not a happy camper, should have had them enlarged before it became necessary to have them cut off.