I have a brand-new bed! Yes, I’m excited. I’d been sleeping on my other mattress for over fifteen years, and it had grown flimsy and caused hip aches on a regular basis. I’ve been hinting to Russ that I needed a new one for months but was getting nowhere. We had a Tempur-Pedic before, but they’re very expensive. Like $6000 expensive for the king-sized mattress alone.
My good friend Vickie Combs, who used to work at Barnes & Noble in Johnson City and set me up with my very first book signing over twelve years ago down there, has moved into furniture sales, so I went down to Grand Furniture Sales in Kingsport, TN, where she works and let them show me around the mattress section. Well, of course I had my heart set on a Tempur-Pedic, but they also introduced me to the concept of the bed base. A bed base will raise and lower the head, the feet, massage the head and feet, go into Zero Gravity mode, which takes all the pressure off your back. You can even get them with lumbar support if you have a bad lower back. Yeah, I needed me one of those, too. In all, I was looking at about $9-$10K. Huh-uh! Girl gonna get over herself and stick with the worn-out Tempur-Pedic she has at those prices.
I went back a couple of days later and checked out a different mattress, a memory foam called Nectar. I tried out the Nectar 5.0, top of the line. I loved it. And I tried it on the Rio base 4.0 – it’s called Rio, for Pete’s sake, as a Duranie, of course I’m gonna love a bed base called Rio! Then I found out that the Rio 5.0 had the lumbar support feature. It’s all remote control. So I went for it. Half the price of the Tempur-Pedic and 0% interest for 36 months. What I learned from this endeavor is that beds aren’t cheap. But my aching muscles and joints needed something. We finally got everything delivered and set up yesterday. I’m having a blast trying out all the settings. So are the cats, believe it or not! The one thing I have to be careful of is that everyone is present and accounted for before I lower the head or foot of the bed. I don’t want squashed kitty-puffs.
The one drawback is that I decided to keep my platform from the other bed. So, with the base and Nectar 5.0, it stands 36 inches tall. Yes, I have to have a little step stool to get in and out of bed. But I’m acclimating. I love getting up from a sitting position and hope that it will help when I have surgery in early December. Although getting down from the bed may still take some maneuvering. I may have to get a two-step step stool. But I’ll figure it out. It sleeps like a dream and I love waking up less sore and more energized. Although, truthfully, lying in bed all day is tempting now, too. It’s just so heavenly with all the positions and features you can run on it. Big thanks to everyone at Grand’s who made it a great deal and helped me walk out with something that would work for me for years to come. Thanks to Vickie for hooking up a hoochie on a bed I’ve fallen in love with!
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