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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''0 C3 d- n4 h- G/ w6 w0 G
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''! L5 d* z2 U A% d% I: P
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"Speaking."
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/ {; m+ U8 E8 T+ g- N+ m5 k+ J2 E''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."( G9 _* s8 X0 c
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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."! _# H, s6 {* v, t5 N( y1 w, ^
; x" J) U- c) ^% H; S% a2 g+ _"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.5 h, C. r' y7 l) U: C, M
7 U( l8 H7 ~% m( [# i"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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4 {, M/ r$ [* T''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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