Mistake

It is seldom easy to admit you made a mistake, but I did.

Thinking I could sleep on a fold out couch the way I did over forty eight years ago was foolishness and pride.

I may think I feel the same way I did then, but I don't.

Forty eight years ago I was twenty years old. I was suffering from dental surgery then too, but it was much much worse. I lost so much weight I only weighed 102 pounds. I slept night and day on the old fold down couch we used as a bed. Actually I only slept on half of it! My husband slept on the other half of that twin sized couch.

But our bones were young and we were in love.

Now I am not suffering very much at all from the dental surgery, but my bones are much older and they do not like the fold down couch even though I get the whole thing.

So I am selling it and buying a daybed with a real mattress and no folds filled with hinges and wooden support beams.

I made a mistake and I'd rather admit it than continue not sleeping. One hurts my ego, but the other hurts my bones and my bones have grown much louder than my ego.