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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''+ Z" h# P% e/ J" m% D: k4 f7 @& N
$ k- e, |5 ^7 E8 i6 v"Mrs. Sanders, please.''% ] {) W' Q2 @" y
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"Speaking."
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' Q Z* P8 L6 J# Q" `6 u''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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''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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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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5 O: E& v$ Q- `''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"& D' @4 P l$ j& B% u
. i* E- P/ m2 J5 M4 I''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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