1. Mario has experienced damage to his facial nerve. How would this affect his s

1. Mario has experienced damage to his facial nerve. How would this affect his special senses?
2. The shift nurse brings ailing eighty-year-old Gertrude her dinner. As Gertrude eats a small amount of her food, she comments that she isn’t hungry and that “hospital food just doesn’t taste good!” The nurse gives Gertrude a menu so she can choose her morning breakfast. Gertrude complains that she is having trouble reading the menu and asks the nurse to read it to her. As the nurse begins to read, Gertrude loudly asks her to “speak up and turn off the buzzing.” What does the nurse know about aging and the special senses that help to explain Gertrude’s comments?
3. As you help your neighbor put drops in her six-year-old daughter’s eyes, the daughter states, “That medicine tastes bad.” How do you explain to the neighbor how her daughter can “taste” the eyedrops?
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