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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''2 \/ A9 r* [' y. p9 K3 L" [
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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- ^2 `# b. Y4 |) Y% j+ v''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."& {- G6 U; v& y6 m* R
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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( T, ]. V6 m, g& }; r( 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."
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- r; W+ O' G, K E"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.& b1 N/ @0 Y* `
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."/ g: e( G9 H( K4 I, ^2 t
4 \$ ?9 M ?! r& 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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