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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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/ l5 F3 ~0 d2 V, a0 x7 [, s"Mrs. Sanders, please.''3 J6 d0 u5 T% ?
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"Speaking."
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) u0 J3 L$ [9 n, 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."
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$ v4 _# m! f0 ~! f- F: J8 }''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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- G$ d# n! h+ ^4 B"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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/ V1 J1 L8 S1 r; k( h3 Q"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.. N; x, v V Y
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."$ [, n/ m8 i4 c5 H# E# |
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"% j' L! V1 Y) K. W
% K6 v+ H. [0 J''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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