Hospital patient

In 1981 I was working on a urology ward as an auxiliary nurse I got a patient out of the bath it was his second time on the ward but his visit was one year later from his first. He explained to me he had come out in a rush and only managed to pick up a small towel, so I went to see if the linen trolley had arrived that morning with new sheets and occasionally it would have a towel. I picked a towel up and took it back to the patient who gasped and said that was his towel that he had lost a year earlier. This is a great coincidence because all items for laundry go to a massive skip where they are then taken to another hospital for washing. They were then stored and only released when wards needed more linen. There was no way of ever knowing which ward or even hospital the towel would have originally come from.