also hospitalized and received outpatient treatment between December 22, 1988, and June 22, 1989. She incurred medical expenses amounting to $145,941.63 during that period.
Apparently under the impression that plaintiff and her family were indigent, Children's billed the Department of Social Services for Medicaid benefits to partially cover the medical expenses associated with the second period of treatment. The DSS, also apparently under the impression that the Hicks family was indigent, determined the statutory amount allowable for the treatment and reimbursed Children's a total of $62,497.55. As subrogee of plaintiff, the DSS then sought and received from Citizens full reimbursement of the monies that the DSS paid to Children's.
Citizens refused to pay the remainder of the medical bill to either plaintiff or the hospital, contending that payment of Medicaidcrack in the barn door. She is so light even in that most rounded and muscular part of her, where the strong sinews twist together in a basin, that you never see her push up to let you, rather she arcs and floats a little over the sweet straw to meet your hand, like a magic lamp with its wick floating in oil. Your hand slips easily over the small knob at the brim of her pelvis, so light, and helps her. And this precisely tooled handle that only you know leaves you still the two fingers free, the ring finger and the little finger, to prod her open. Now you can light the wick from the flame at the tip of any finger.

And now awash with love