About 4 or five years ago the mattress in our bedroom was totally destroyed.  It was way beyond the use life.  I am serious while both of us were much heavier than we are right now, while my side had a big hole where my body was his side had given up and was trying to run away.  He had no side wall of the mattress and was trying not to fall on the floor.  One night I got so upset I demanded an end to the bullshit and insisted he remove the mattress.  

So instead of buying a new mattress he decided to remove the bed frame and instead put up a high air mattress we had for when we needed to go to the hospital during a hurricane and kept for visitors to sleep on.  But that was too low for my hips and back and I was constantly struggling.  One night as I was sleeping the value gave out and I ended up trapped in the bed, crying for help.  James heard me and came down and got me up.  

So Ron overcame his hate to spend money on his own comfort and realized we couldn’t do this.  Now here is where our lives are different.  I figured we would get a new bed frame, a storage bed I always wanted due to our abundance of stuff and lack of space to put it, and a normal mattress from the mattress stores that cost around $1,200.00

Nope, Ron listened to James who had just spend a large amount of money on a frame and mattress from the Purple company.  So Ron told me to asked me to order the new king-size storage bed that was already very high, and he and James went back and forth over what mattress we needed for it.  When Ron told me that the mattress was going to cost $4,000.00 I was shocked.  I was like what about this or that one advertised locally.  Nope he said we need this for you and your very painful bones.  I tried hard to say my bones could deal … but he wouldn’t bend. So the king size bed frame I choose because of the storage and headboard space for $1,800 he added $4,000 grand for the purple mattress.  

Now I was upset but decided if he insisted, I could live with it.  But when the bed arrived and we set it up, it had a weight limit of … 300 pounds.  But the new mattress that Ron bought was 300 pounds itself.  So before Ron and James put the new mattress on the bed, Ron added a few under the bed supports and a couple large 2x4s to run down the length of the bed.  

Move to this last week as Ron was frantically trying to figure out what was happening to our south sided wall outlets on a split circuit that seemed to go mostly to the south wall and a small part to my Pink Palace including his TV and player stuff.  After we went to bed about 1 am we both woke to a huge … Bang, crack, boom.  We did not realize what happened until he got up a few hours later after trying hard to stay in bed and hitting me in the face accidentally.

So after a few hours he gave up and got up.  We took the mattress off.  And Ron was shocked.  All the support legs had twisted off, and the too thin boards had warped under the weight or broke.  So Ron stopped replacing the outlets and electrical work he was doing for two days … We do have priorities and not sleeping on the floor is one of them.  So he got his tools including his drill and saws out, and went to work.  Sadly it was a time in the month when we only had $50 dollars in our account (yes we are now among the US seniors who are very poor) so he did not buy a sheet of 1/4 plywood which he feels would have fixed the problem, instead he grabbed all the different pieces of wood he had to patch things and promised me he would buy the plywood to fix it when I got paid.  

Ron sadly tries to cheer me up by reminding me our life has become management by crisis.  Great news.  The bed is again very strong and comfortable … even able to stand … active seniors sex activities.   Below are the pictures.   Hugs and loves to all.  And yes the drama of our grand life continues.   Hugs