You put away the book—what are you waiting for?

[sovay]

I have to get up in less than five hours because I finally have a doctor's appointment early tomorrow which I was supposed to have had in early June but lost due to the insurance horror. We now have health insurance again. I will be filing a boatload of paperwork to see if we can recoup any of the costs of the mistake for which we were not responsible. I am trying not to worry that I have taken permanent damage from not seeing the doctors I was supposed to see and maybe getting some kind of treatment at the time for this issue which did not in any way resolve on its own and which bothers me as we speak. I will find out tomorrow. In the meantime I finished watching Alexander Korda's Perfect Strangers (U.S. Vacation from Marriage, 1945), a British wartime comedy in the screwball remarriage mode starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a timid middle-class pair—a bookkeeper with negative assertiveness and a housewife prone to head colds—who join the Navy and the Wrens respectively and self-actualize so much that they decide to get divorced without even having seen one another in three years, cue third-act fireworks. Roland Culver and Ann Todd play the romantic alternatives, a wry naval architect and a thoughtful nurse. Glynis Johns gets third billing as Kerr's bunkmate and wingman (the naval architect's her cousin) and I liked her so much I took a picture. I really hope I can sleep.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, that sounds great! I'll have to keep an eye out in case it turns up on Talking Pictures - it sounds like the sort of thing that probably will at some point.

[sovay]

I'll have to keep an eye out in case it turns up on Talking Pictures - it sounds like the sort of thing that probably will at some point.

Agreed! I got it via FilmStruck/TCM. I think you would enjoy it. It's a lot of fun and critically doesn't fail the reconciliation.

[moon_custafer]

Coincidentally, the Valkyrie* in the latest installment of a fanfic series I’ve been writing, is manifesting as a Wren, although Mr. Satterthwaite doesn’t for a moment she is anything of the kind. I’ll have to keep that photo in mind, although I picture her as looking a little more like Brigitte Helm.


*Not Marvel’s Valkyrie, obvs

[sovay]

I’ll have to keep that photo in mind, although I picture her as looking a little more like Brigitte Helm.

I am afraid Deborah Kerr does not look like Brigitte Helm, either:

[larryhammer]

Hubba hubba.

[sovay]

Hubba hubba.

Exactly!

[gwynnega]

I'm glad you have health insurance again. I hope you get reimbursed in full and that the doctor can resolve the issue you were unable to get treated due to the insurance horror.

[sovay]

I hope you get reimbursed in full and that the doctor can resolve the issue you were unable to get treated due to the insurance horror.

Thank you.

[jesse_the_k]

May the doctor have a million answers!

May your health insurance company Do the Right Thing.

[sovay]

May the doctor have a million answers!

The doctor had only some answers, but she had referrals and she confirmed by audiometry that I have not lost any of my hearing, which I was really worried about!

May your health insurance company Do the Right Thing.

Oh, God. Thank you.

[chomiji]

Wishing you all the best at the appointment!

AH, I see by one of your responses that you have been and it was pretty good. So wishing you all the best with the insurance.

[sovay]

AH, I see by one of your responses that you have been and it was pretty good. So wishing you all the best with the insurance.

Thank you!

I had been hoping the doctor's appointment would lead to a quick fix, which it did not, but finding out that I'm not going deaf was hugely reassuring.