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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''6 }3 d) x' J( N6 s8 q- T
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"Speaking."6 m `: d( B% M$ B5 |) `
2 L0 P5 l! v- x. {, _/ p8 p''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."; F! o4 r% n. u3 P# b
' d+ O: Z+ C5 W6 j% k''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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3 k. X K' n! N$ u, F"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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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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: C. a. y! |+ ~$ V"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."4 u: [/ t$ z1 c& e
' G( V5 Z( q$ l7 J9 x S- Y E) x''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"3 ~, |% _& N: G9 _; C7 [( ]1 J" B
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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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