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My friend Frank’s mother is in a nursing home. One of the “better” nursing homes in the area. Today he was complaining to me about how he went to visit her yesterday and found her lying in bed in a pool of blood. She had a wound that had been bandaged, but the blood has soaked through and soaked her, and the sheets. When he asked the staff to change the bandage and the sheets, he met with so much resistance that he ended up changing it himself!

And then today he went to see her and saw that someone had delivered “Easter baskets” to all of the patients in the home, and in the Easter baskets were bottles of outdated diet Coke. He brought one of the bottles to me to see – the “used by date” was December 15, 2008! Although outdated soda is generally safe to drink, it tastes nasty – the carbonation is all but gone. I can’t even imagine someone giving out expired sodas to folks in a nursing home! What’s up with that?