This is the kind of story you expect to find in Mad Magazine…

Dixson Sr. was 90 when he died on January 30, 2004. He’s best known for co-writing hits like “Lollipop,” recorded by the Chordettes, and “Begging, Begging,” recorded by James Brown.

On January 16, 2004, the elderly Dixson had surgery at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital at 58th Street and 10th Avenue to repair a broken femur near the hip.

Family members say before the surgery, a hospital staffer removed the elderly man’s dentures, but after the surgery the dentures couldn’t be found.

According to Dixson Jr., over the next 13 days his father was fed some solid food, some soft food, all of which he had trouble eating. “It hurt him to mesh the food with his gums. He said he needed his teeth,” Dixson Jr. said.

The son said his father’s health deteriorated, and he didn’t go on a feeding tube until January 29, 2004 — the day before he died. The younger Dixson said his father, nine days after the surgery, told him, “If I die in here, you go after them.”

via CBS

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