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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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8 x- _# L& k" Z, |$ O"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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* H; {% Q6 L! L2 {* ~% p# `- r( d2 I''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."( f+ x' F" [# m' b, G9 U
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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."% b, u/ i& c$ a. ~) \4 M. u" F! u
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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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''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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