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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.'', ~% }' o6 Z1 d( D! _! s$ G; v( b
, q+ T4 e, s5 C% v" t"Mrs. Sanders, please.''; b/ k& c- j4 f; ?, c) k3 {- W
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6 _7 p, B9 M# C# \4 h+ S5 K! ~: }3 u''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."" A1 `# V1 H* `, }8 q
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''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."8 \* ^, q) H) h1 z* O0 |
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"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."/ Q4 r& O/ H! I: }8 U
% m* n) f1 T4 S' s( F% s0 `''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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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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