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#nursing-home

Steven Sharp, 55, says on the first morning of a six-week stay at Diablo Valley Post Acute rehabilitation center, he was mistakenly given about five to six ounces of a solution containing bleach with about 12 pills. Per Bay Area News Group, he immediately told staff he'd been given bleach and was feeling burning in his esophagus and stomach. According to the lawsuit, after 45 minutes of Sharp asking staff to call 911, an employee came in and apologized for what happened.

On his first morning, a staff member handed him a clear plastic cup holding five or six ounces of clear liquid to go with about a dozen pills, and he drank it down with the medications, the lawsuit filed last week alleged. Sharp felt immediate burning in his mouth and throat, the lawsuit said. He alerted the staff that they had given him bleach' to drink, and that his mouth and esophagus were burning, the lawsuit claimed.

I sit in my room in this nursing home near Sydney, a box of four walls that holds all I now call my own. Two suitcases could carry it.