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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."/ Z% m( i# I. X; A* C, U( y5 ~
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''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."
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) C/ Q- V/ l! t7 Q''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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"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."
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) Y% X% z! L3 r( z$ w# C5 @"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.3 Y; G7 b" ]) R5 G# @
1 ^9 i; J% S- U( J- n4 G"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."9 h2 V: G2 v3 ~; b: `
( Z- V5 f' K8 i+ i" ^# n''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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