A few things about the TWD plot,
1) About Grimes surviving unconscious & alone in the hospital: While I agree that the waste-disposal details were omitted just for the "eww factor" people don't want to deal with, as for HOW Grimes actually survived multiple days unattended I have a POSSIBLE answer for you from real life.
I'm not a doctor or a nurse, so pardon my lack of technical jargon, but I once accompanied my mother and grandmother to a long-term-care facility for individuals essentially in a protracted vegetative state. When we entered the room of the very elderly comatose neighbor-lady we'd come to see, I noticed that the IV-bag-stand had 4 bags of what looked like saline solution to me. All four bags fed into this little multiple-valve-and-clip arrangement via tube, before the tube continued on into the actual site of the IV-needle on the inside of her elbow. Curious, I asked one of the orderlies about the setup, and he told me that two of the bags were saline solution, and the other two were both mixtures of glucose, trace minerals and mild antibiotics, and that at any one time the little valve and clip setup (which he mentioned had a mechanical timer that he described as being more like a wind-up alarm clock than a computerized digital alarm clock) was regulating one bag of saline for awhile, before switching and allowing the glucose-mixture to drip for awhile. Then (assuming that no one came to modify the settings) when the first two "active bags" were depleted, it could somehow begin the alternate-drip-process all over again using the 2nd pair of bags.
Anyways, the reason I remember all this is that he mentioned that assuming the person didn't expire or need a major change of the medication, there was no reason you couldn't hang a maximum of 12 IV-bags and allow the mechanical valve system to work through the bags 2 at a time until all 12 bags were emptied. What stuck in my memory though was him saying that, ideally, there was no reason you couldn't pre-arrange to hydrate and nutritionally nourish a patient for up to a month if you set up 2 12-bag systems, and set up 2 IV-feed-sites (say, on the left and right arms) without any further human intervention.
That creeped me out, because I had visions of warehouses of human vegetables, all being sustained by a consistently alternation drip-system no more complicated than an alarm clock. I remembered thinking about that again when I first saw the Matrix, and Neo being removed from his fluid-filled-tube.
Anyways, the bottom line is that, assuming nothing goes wrong enough that you'd perish without human intervention, there's no medical reason to get in the way of getting a comatose patient all set for at least a month alone with a little prep-work up front. Now, that obviously wasn't the case for Deputy Grimes, but it could well explain say, Alice's waking-up-in-deserted-hospital scenario in Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse, or the main character in 28 Days Later.
2) How did Rick Grimes end up boxed in, surrounded and swarmed while on horseback in the outskirts of Atlanta: Rider Error. As he wheels the horse upon coming face to face with the zombie-packed street, you can see the horse's stride begin to widen to about 2-3 body lengths short of a full gallop. Unfortunately, just then Rick sees the zombies beginning to crowd the street he just came down from either side. Now, if he'd let the horse have its head it would have hit top speed at about the same time it smacked into the first couple of zombies. Instead, you can see him pull back hard and a bit to the left on the reins, bringing the horse up short as he pulls its head to the left. It's as this point Rick gets surrounded and pulled off the horse.
Had see simply laid his head across the horse's neck, leaned in and put his heels into that horse's sides a bit, several hundred pounds of horseflesh would have struck a few 150-195lbs undead bodies. Various scribes and chroniclers throughout history have done a wonderful job of describing the awful destructive power of a charging horse upon the bodies of footmen in their way, so I shall not essay to improve on their efforts. Suffice to say that Rick didn't leave Atlanta on the horse he rode in on because Rick had no faith in his mount's abilities, leading to the sad and systematic dismemberment of said steed.
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