My Son-in-Law Removed My Granddaughter’s Oxygen Mask Over Money—Then I Walked Into the ICU.
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Chapter 18 - THE $2,300 GETS PAID
Insurance processed the transport claim.
Patient responsibility:
$640.
Not $2,300.
The original number had been an estimate.
That fact became almost funny.
Almost.
Cole’s insurance plan covered most of it.
Laurel paid the $640 from her own account because the bill concerned Poppy and the temporary court order assigned current medical expenses proportionally pending later adjustment.
I offered.
She said no.
Cole’s lawyer later reimbursed his share through the parenting-account system.
No one signed my acknowledgment.
The famous $2,300 never existed as a final debt.
An estimated invoice had nearly become more important to Cole than oxygen.
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Money is strange that way.
Sometimes the amount matters less than who bends.
