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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''9 k+ u2 j: N0 D" m) x
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"Speaking."$ B* a/ G# U1 q8 O' N/ ^
) ^% P6 s( G5 C- I0 h0 E! `''Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible." s3 l* \/ k% d) W; a
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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% z: J, l m( z" K0 U0 Z"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's."* Q& U: e5 B2 o
- O9 h- k1 S6 I# v"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.4 D1 s' e N! K5 a [
6 A7 O/ g; h7 l$ F% |$ f4 {0 R"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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9 G5 F) L/ z- m, t7 b$ E''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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''The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him |
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