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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''6 O! j4 g' g* `/ ?0 y* B, A
3 Y6 }( U4 {$ w1 J" [; j& z8 F"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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''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."! S# ~# L- `9 r3 w' \) d4 ?
& E7 {6 X' q; O3 {6 H- w''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."7 p8 d0 p( `# @# u) r# ~
5 ]( [4 H: u' w6 L" A; t"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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; E7 `* ^4 }" ]: `9 {& {& {2 _"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."! m3 U5 ^/ P1 ^0 f3 Y4 ^ B
, J5 ~; f3 J% \''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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- L3 n' {1 F% b2 L8 @# V''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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