Single in a double bed.

Please feel free to stop reading and make a cup of coffee and get on with your otherwise uninterrupted day while I waffle on about my morning because someone will read it and that’s all I want. I have a little bit of arthritis in my back and knees and shoulders and neck and brain – that last bit is what my ex-wife would have said on one of her better days. I have begun to notice that when I lie in bed on my left side there is a pain developing right where the ball and socket joint is and over the next number of minutes the pain wanders decisively down my arm to my hand but not into my armpit because that would mean I’m having a heart attack which wouldn’t be all that good. So I have taken to sleeping on my right side all the time which isn’t good because I was accustomed to changing from left to right and back again quite frequently.

But the problem is that my left side was my prefered side and my room is set up for that and now I am feeling that I will need to change my room around. The thing is that when you sleep single in a double bed you..

I remember back to      John don’t. That’s uncalled for!    Well I’m going to anyway. Sorry about that there’s a bad angel sitting on my left shoulder and sometimes it dominates. You know what I mean. I remember when it was a case of sleeping not single in a double bed but double in a single bed. Go here if you want to know what my pathetically miserable mind wants to remember.

Are you back? As I was saying I need to change my bedroom around. Everything is based upon me lying on my left shoulder; I lie on the left side of the bed, my bedside table is on the left, I fling the bedclothes off and throw my right leg over and am standing up on the left of the room close to the door and therefore ipso facto close to the kitchen and the coffee. When I wake up from lying on my right side I have to roll over and my back is a bit sore and that makes it a bit uncomfortable – get over it John. You’re 80. suck it up. I didn’t like that doctor. –

But if I change to sleepin on the other side of the bed I’m going to hafta move the bedside table with the reading-books-late-at-night lamp onto the other side as well but the power points aren’t so easily accessible and I don’t want an extension cord running helter skelter around the wall and anyway that would put me closer to the window and in winter that means that it gets colder at night on that side of the room. Or I could get rid of my double bed and get a single bed but then just imagine all those dreams I would have to get used to not having and Mary Hopkins etc. if you know what I mean. Get Off My Shoulder! . and as for you get over it John. You’re 80. suck it up. It is a nice song though. 

When we were young and had visitors ie cousins and they had to stay the night because we lived a long way out of town and so did they on the other side of town a long way then Mum would put David and me in the same bed so that two cousins could sleep in David’s bed and we were “topped and tailed” which meant she would make up our beds so that there was a pillow at both ends and we would hafta sleep with each others smelly feet poking in each other’s nose but even though it now sounds really bad it always seemed to work out okay and that’s what I meant about sleeping double in a single bed and not what you thought. But I do like that song.