1 result for (book:wth AND heading:"part two chapter 14 august 17 1984" AND stemmed:bill)
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Georgia
ashamed
surmount
panic
starving
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(After lunch I took down to billing a check I’d received yesterday from our insurance company. The rather small amount, $5,000, was a puzzle. I didn’t know what it was for. Neither did the people in billing.
(Strange, I said to Jane when finally I got back to 330. Maybe the whole insurance mess will be reopened in more confusion. I should have known that the calm of the last few months was deceptive. Our bill has run up again to around $55,000 — and here insurance hasn’t been sending me any checks. My idea that the hospital might be billing them quarterly or something like that must have been wishful thinking. I’m going to forget the whole business if at all possible.
(Once again Jane ate very little for lunch, although Georgia had said she did okay for breakfast. She’s still starving, essentially. Jane and Georgia talked and smoked while I was down to billing. Jane said she’d have a session later, then changed her mind as I got ready to do mail. Her voice was very shaky, not very distinct, rather high-pitched and with little inflection. Eyes open and closed.)
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