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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"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."
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.$ D+ d2 A x$ }
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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."
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" y0 c l8 t `, H) `; {( B' M& x"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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! _- o* g2 ` j! L8 U"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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) ]% Z+ q; t/ O! d" ]) \9 P''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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5 e4 @4 L& [! O''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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