THE OLD MATTRESS SWITCHAROO

 The time had come, I told Mr. A, to change the big heavy foam mattress from our platform bed and put it back on the box spring bed in the guest bedroom. You see, my "arthuritus" makes it painful for me to lift the corners of the big guy to put on the sheets. In fact. the big guy is almost too big for our platform bed and there is no room to stick in your hand (especially if you have swollen fingers like I do) to get a grip on it. It weighs a ton as it is solid foam. So after breakfast we gutted it up and heaved it out of the platform bed, hauled it down the hallway (with lots of grunting and swearing) into the guest bedroom and slowly nudged it on to the box spring. Fun times! This was the mattress set we got in Chico for our condo when we spent a year there.

Now we have the lighter weight, slightly smaller and lighter foam mattress on the platform bed again. The slats under the mattress keep it fairly firm. We hope that our backs can tolerate it.