( JOKES ) Stories from Africa

Health Alert

The phone rings and the lady of the house

answers, 'Hello.'

'Mrs. Sanders, please.'

'Speaking.'

'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes

Laboratory. When your husband's doctor sent

his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from

another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now

uncertain which one belongs to your husband.

Frankly, either way the results are not too good.'

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks

nervously.

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for

Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for

HIV. We can't tell which is which.'

'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?'

questioned Mrs. Sanders.

'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for

these expensive tests one time.'

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'

'The folks 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.'