it may feel a little different but it’s great to be back in our double bed that Ken and I purchased when we were married in 1959. We’ve spent nearly two weeks with him sleeping in his family room lounge chair and me on the living room davenport.
For the past fifty years, we’ve been using a waterbed. At the height of their popularity, the industry came out with a water-mattress containing a plastic bladder, which worked for us. Our bedroom is too small to accommodate a queen or king-sized framework. Before we made the switch, we spent a summer night at a Madison, Wisconsin, motel to make ssure we would like sleeping on one.
The first cold day we had the water mattress with an electric heater, I thought I would be frugal like I was with our furnace, which I lowered ten degrees at night. I turned the bed warmer down during the time no one was sleeping. When I turned it up again for my cop husband who was working a night shift, it took a long time to heat up. Ken thought he was having a chill and getting a cold. I’ve never touched that dial again.
Through the years, waterbeds have fallen out of favor. The last time we needed a new bladder, we had to make a fifty-mile trip to Woodstock to buy one.
When our present set-up sprang a leak, Ken did the clean-up and declared enough. He had been an advocate for the waterbed because before we had one, he made regular trips to the chiropractor for a spinal adjustment. After making the sleeping change, he had no more back problems.
A couple weeks ago, we went mattress shopping in Rockford and found one that suited us but, the store didn’t deliver to the boondocks until last Thursday.
Did you succumb to the waterbed fad?