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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''% K1 {1 v6 X# ]/ F8 x/ o2 h& S
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''( S, E% \2 w, ~0 B
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"Speaking."5 r( x9 G k, i& `1 N; x2 Q, u) ]; Q; k
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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.". E' f# m+ D. j) P2 W
6 V2 ?, l# C5 b# I1 [5 Y''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.: c6 Z# K4 D4 q( b) u
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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."/ Z& w" y% h0 i* F) |4 y$ p) t$ N
1 Q9 Q- @7 y+ g& W+ S, p W6 H"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."/ c+ F+ @$ D" s& D( N
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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8 W3 C7 R+ a( f' f" b6 K% _''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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