I love how I can ask Gemini to give me a title for these entries when I can’t think of one off the top of my head, even though it’s not always very creative or original
Here we go again with the bed and back issues. I have no regrets about getting a waterbed, but I totally regret getting a shallow soft-side with tubes. We have other more important things going on at the moment, like my crown, getting the new refrigerator, water filter, and dealing with the toilet, but as soon as we can ever get a break between things breaking, we talked about building a hard side. Buying a hard side would cost way more, so we realized we’re better off having Lowe’s cut wood to the size we want and doing it ourselves. I definitely want something deeper and a single full-wave bladder rather than tubes.
Just like with my previous mattresses that weren’t waterbeds, there’s a bit of a dent forming where I sleep. I don’t think the black foam underneath is breaking down, but I think the foam in the cover could be. To boost me up a bit more, I wedged some memory foam between the black foam covering the tubes and the soft cover. Not sure if this is going to help my back, though. I’ve been waking up with lower back pain as the bed gets saggier and appears to be losing water when in fact the sides are actually stretching. Part of it could also be the foam breaking down. I’m a little worried that I might overheat this way, but we’ll find out.
Damn, do I miss the old hard-side king-size waterbed I had in Arizona! It was so much easier to make as well. I just threw a piece of foam on top of it, then a cover sheet over that, and simply stuffed it down along the sides. You can put regular sheets on soft-sides, but because it’s so soft and the mattress is only 8” thick, they slip and bunch.
They say it’s going to be wetter this summer here. Oh, of course it will be. Now that my nose is done and I’m not suffocating awake, why not throw in more thunderstorms to wake me up with those instead? As it is, I’m pretty tired today because I was up longer than I wanted to be due to a 90-minute power failure. It would have been worse if it had happened the day before, though.
My eyes are still a little oozy and itchy, so I don’t know if this is a permanent side effect of surgery or not. I just wish I had been warned up front. That’s my only complaint. When trying to take a nap earlier without the CPAP, I could see that even if I didn’t need a CPAP anymore, I would probably have to sleep with nose strips because even though my nose is much more open, it’s not like it used to be. Even Tom has noticed a difference over the years, since everyone has a degree of nasal valve collapse as they age.
I’m no longer sure eggs really help with energy because the last two or three times I had them, they didn’t seem to make a difference. I’ve been making them for Tom because the plasma place recommended he have that a few days before protein testing to help boost his protein levels.
I was a little frustrated to wake up to find a voice message from my insurance company. I was like, why do I have to do any health work now? So I called them back, and all they wanted to do was tell me the same thing they sent me a letter about, and that was to set up either a virtual appointment or have a nurse come out, and I would receive 250 points for it. As I told her, they already notified me about this, and I do plan to schedule it just as soon as I get my dental and ENT appointments out of the way. Or at least the ENT and the first dental appointment. The second one will just be to have the permanent crown placed.
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