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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''$ s: K5 h# d8 p5 ^. A9 k5 P
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''+ W: ^4 T4 q! _5 x5 X3 P: [, k8 u5 K3 d
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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."- f2 h4 R. l; D; R, D) f" S
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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7 B5 B' e* N( E( e"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."! \# [6 n' d) Y% U+ L6 z
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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6 b! q# b; ]* F) D# t+ I( \% Q"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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5 v# R: p. M9 i5 O9 i) W''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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