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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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1 m a; x/ Z4 t9 \"Mrs. Sanders, please.''% V1 `2 D+ B4 k3 E& f0 N
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"Speaking."& C! \& q P: |* h
4 y5 H- [- K# m ]3 D5 A! 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."! O; c* M" M* d9 \7 q) H2 T
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously./ S3 H1 k3 z5 `+ S. W
; x4 I) i+ Y6 p; b# n0 s"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."4 Q! \6 X# v6 i/ `0 `) ~ M) [
( w! ~! B$ W8 m8 E: Z D2 j"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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; g! Q) A9 Y! J2 B# P/ L5 t. ~% ~''Well, what am I supposed to do now?": _& Y6 S7 B" q8 r
: L: z" {% L) L1 V o6 W/ m, N''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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