FIVEAll Sandie learned from her very expensive blood tests was that there was no reason for her to have paid for very expensive blood tests. She did not have leprosy, or hepatitis, or any of a number of different anemias. The news was a comfort, but the check was not.
Sandie bought a book of stamps and sent a stack of poems away to the offices of Lead Soldiers, thinking that a small royalty would at least begin to fill the dent that a new door and a medical bill had left in her bank account.
“Maybe you could take up a special collection for me,” she told Mike as she got him a glass of water – root beer was an unnecessary expense.
“Meh,” he said. “Charitable though the cause may be, it doesn’t really work that way.”
“Shame. I’m going to start getting really sick of ramen in a week or tw
