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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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''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."' r. x$ ~1 q1 X: [8 j; g
9 ^$ x+ ^( w' N2 n' N0 d. g: ^''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."8 q$ ^3 \ M6 L Q7 v" b( L/ x
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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3 [0 Z# d! ~/ Y0 x5 [# u- T"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."( T+ f( n3 G8 L P& P: N
1 F& d7 q/ N2 _8 r$ c0 ]0 [" B4 S& V''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"1 E4 [( I: A1 I3 r! `
8 Z. p9 H9 z$ r$ q''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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