Surgery #2 and Bedding

It's almost time.  My second hip surgery is this Wednesday.  My mom arrives Tuesday morning, and will stay until the 15th.  I'm excited that the surgery is happening, and I'm looking forward to seeing my mom.  I haven't had an overnight guest in a while.

I'm hoping that my recovery will be quick, but I'll just have to wait and see.

In other news, I finally got my new mattress.  I'm very glad I got it in time to do my surgery recovery on it.

I did a whole lot of research before buying this mattress (after buying 2 other mattresses that were less comfortable than my 9-year-old metal spring mattress).  This is a 10" latex foam mattress that I got from a place called sleepez.com.

My mattress pieces before assembly

It's considered a "kit" mattress, and it arrives in pieces that you have to assemble.  There are 6 slabs of latex foam, each 3 inches thick, with different softness ratings.  You stack three on each side of a zip-up cover that holds it all together.  Then you can rearrange layers until you get the feel you want.

Looks kinda like this

I ordered XFirm, Medium, Soft for the side I sleep on, and Firm, Firm, Medium to put on the other side and use to experiment with if I wanted to swap out layers.  Fortunately, the XFirm, Medium, Soft feels really good.  So good that the only other arrangement I want to try is Firm, Medium, Soft.  So I have to exchange one of my Firm layers for a Soft, and then I can try both arrangements side by side.  They'll let me exchange layers really cheap for the first 90 days.

I don't know which of those two arrangements I will prefer, but the one I have now feels really good.  It's supportive, but soft.  I can sleep comfortably on my side or my back, or even on my front.  I've never experienced a mattress this comfortable.

Latex is nice because doesn't form lasting impressions like memory foam does.  That's important because I would have a hard time transferring out of an impression.

Also the mattress works perfectly on my electric adjustable frame.  I never thought I'd want one of these, but I've used it a couple days now, and I have to say, it's really nice to be able to sit up in bed comfortably, and work on my laptop like I'm doing right now.  I can even sleep with my feet elevated which I've wanted to do since I came home from rehab, but have been unable.

In conclusion, I wish I had bought this mattress a long time ago.  Years ago really.  But it took months of research to figure out what I wanted.  This one wasn't exactly cheap, but it has a 20-year warranty and should last longer than that.  If you're thinking about buying a mattress, you should try mine out.  I couldn't be happier with it.