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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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7 u( ^$ _% C0 A4 a8 r9 H% f"Mrs. Sanders, please.''- E- I- |) r8 q3 D% v
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5 Q) i2 u( f S& k''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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# t- q7 D3 Y; g8 I7 Y+ B''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.+ R# S# c9 O; O2 E8 {# Y9 q
. y" U# a: j4 i) [* M1 D7 k( E, 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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4 `5 P1 [. o1 G: k5 N: m' s7 ?"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."2 I# K! Q" ?9 N; v# v' Z
; X8 d* [) ]& o1 M''Well, what am I supposed to do now?". x" e7 D2 x3 A( l* ]
' q, D5 x6 l/ u''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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