Life, Living and Loving: Another Mrs. Feve Thang

1. What book{s} are you reading these days?
2. What is your favorite flower?
3. If your recreation or other forms of enjoyment have been interrupted by the current stay-home orders affecting many people/places: What do you miss most about ‘before’?
4. What blog/ger do you recommend reading and why?
5. Tell me one thing about yourself that you are proud of.

Mrs. Fever, in her recent post entitled, “Let’s Chat :)” was talking about questions someone had asked her as part of getting a blogging award, something there used to be a lot of but ya don’t see awards being handed out so much these days. In turn, she asked the above questions and I thought, why not – let’s answer them! So here we go!

I am a voracious reader. According to my Kindle app’s Reading Insights, I’ve read for 94 weeks in a row, 62 days in a row… this year to date. I read a lot of science fiction, sometimes a thriller or two (or more) and, really, pretty much anything that strikes my fancy. I had decided to hook up with Kindle Unlimited; paying that $9.99 every month was (and is) a lot less expense than buying books although there are books I will buy – and sometimes at a nice discount – and it allows me to get some Audible audiobooks at really low prices.

Given that I’ve been both retired and disabled for a while now, I have nothing but time on my hands to read.

My favorite flower is an orchid. They’re spooky looking and beautiful at the same time; I’ve seen some that’ll make you think that if you get too close, it’ll wake up and take a bite out of you.

Hmm, what do I miss now that the pandemic has pretty much taken away? Actually, not a whole lot but I miss doing the simple stuff and not having to remember to gear up with mask and gloves just to go get the mail or to take the trash out or, as the weather here is trying to get warmer, to open the back door and get some fresh air in here after being closed up during the winter months.

What blogger do I recommend reading and why? That would be DDJennifer and her blog about domestic discipline (sorry Mrs. Feve but your blog is cool, too). For one, reading her blog teaches me some stuff about domestic discipline that I’m not into but it’s utterly fascinating and, for the other, Jennifer and her clan are a well put together poly family and, at least to me, represents how to do this and do it well, something I do have experience in. Her kinkiness aside for a moment, a lot of couples – in particular – are moving more toward polyamory (in some way) to enhance their relationship and allowing behaviors that monogamy does not and cannot allow for while still being a happy couple.

I know that it doesn’t get any better than this and Jennifer isn’t bashful about discussing, in detail, both her thoughts about all of this and, yeah, the incredible sex she and her clan has while taking care of the normal family business.

What’s the one thing I’m proud of about myself? That I survived both having a stroke and didn’t get taken out by the abdominal aortic aneurysm that was discovered and repaired… twice. When I say that having a stroke is some really scary shit, I’m not understating it or overly exaggerating things and I know I got damned lucky to “get away” with the deficits and stuff I do have… because I’ve seen what it’s like to have a stroke and not be killed by it… and to say it’s not pretty again doesn’t begin to cover it.

Finding out that you have a ticking time bomb in your belly is even scarier since, um, should you have one and it pops – and you rarely get a warning that’s it’s gonna pop – you’re dead in seconds; you could be on the operating table with a team of vascular surgeons working on fixing this and if it pops, you might not survive it.

So mine got repaired “in time” and my vascular surgeon is one of my heroes and is even more so when my endograft was found to be leaking and required another repair that, for me, seemed to be a magic trick since, instead of removing the implant I already had, he added a second one. I know how he did it – I had read up on how leaks are repaired when you have an endograft – but, wow; it’s one thing to know how it’s done and something else to know that he actually did it. I mentioned that to him and he just laughed and winked at me.

So, yeah, I’m both proud, fortunate, and very thankful to have survived two things that some people don’t survive or, if they do, the effects can be debilitating beyond belief. For my stroke, I’ll never be 100% again and it bugs me to be limping around, getting tripped up by a foot that ain’t on the same page with the other one and, yeah, there’s living with the constant neuropathic pain that just does not ever stop.

Very proud to still be here to bitch about it.

Mrs. Feve – how did I do?

PS: Mrs. Feve reminded me that I forgot to provide Jennifer’s blog URL so here it is: https://ddjennifer.wordpress.com/