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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''3 S. |( Q$ m9 p6 m! _! B
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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4 {1 h; X0 h! A' A* `- b''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."2 b7 l! f3 R- p9 R; Y
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.) J8 p7 m# o, X! `5 \# D8 K
1 x5 i* A4 _' z; m"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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- Z. A3 O0 y& y7 v, o"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.# j( @9 t5 W3 ?7 Z
: d$ _. ^4 P! U8 A"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."4 W5 ]' m# K7 l& j
/ z1 x' l) u! H5 U q7 b: G''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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