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@wetdad Salt Lake City has an average humidity of 11% and two months of 100’F+ temperatures, with at least two weeks over 110’F lately. We only get an average of 14” of precipitation per year - though only 11” the past three years, of course, with that likely to be the continuing trend for the global warming future. Furthermore, as the Great Salt Lake is so close to entirely vanishing due to over-damming and exceptional drought, and that lake brings us most of our snow via lake effect, we’re becoming even more and more of a desert 
But my point is, since I’m in a desert, too, it’s good to hear your bedpads don’t retain too much heat in the desert!
Separately, if anyone on the forum ever wanted to see the surreal Great Salt Lake in-person, you should visit within the next three months, and expect to have to walk miles to get to the edge of the water. None of the islands are islands any more because it’s so dried up that you can just walk or drive out to them. For most of my life, there were five islands and the average depth of the lake was 50.’ Now it’s just a few feet deep at its deepest. The local government only cares about getting more land developed to tax, not about saving America’s only inland sea. All kinds of international science consortiums have visited here and ran tests, filing reports telling the local government what idiots they are but of course they won’t listen. Anyway, there’s nothing to be done about it, it’s past the point of no return they say, so if you want to see it, you better get here quick.
But my point is, since I’m in a desert, too, it’s good to hear your bedpads don’t retain too much heat in the desert!
Separately, if anyone on the forum ever wanted to see the surreal Great Salt Lake in-person, you should visit within the next three months, and expect to have to walk miles to get to the edge of the water. None of the islands are islands any more because it’s so dried up that you can just walk or drive out to them. For most of my life, there were five islands and the average depth of the lake was 50.’ Now it’s just a few feet deep at its deepest. The local government only cares about getting more land developed to tax, not about saving America’s only inland sea. All kinds of international science consortiums have visited here and ran tests, filing reports telling the local government what idiots they are but of course they won’t listen. Anyway, there’s nothing to be done about it, it’s past the point of no return they say, so if you want to see it, you better get here quick.
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@snow I read/watched (https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-great-salt-lake-is-on-the-brink-of-collapse) about the great salt lake and it is a shame where it is. I remember visiting in the late 90s, cannot imagine it's current state. Though I read that the resulting dust storms may get the local officials to act. Similar to what happened to the Salton Sea.
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@snow Hey Snow - My husband had our California king water bed before we got married (for us 40 plus years.) We keep waiting for it to fall apart living in the desert, but like you we love it especially when it is cold outside. Don't have to make a"warm" spot. I just have to wear a Depends and put down a couple of pads on top and try to deal with keeping them in place when I want to turn over. Rather a pain for sure. My sister who is a retired nurse suggested a bedside camode. Which we actually had when my husband had to have a below knee amputation due to a blood clot and forgot all about it. Really, that thing has been a salvation since I don't move fast enough to get to the bathroom. Have you considered a bedside comode?- Pam
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@Pammy53 Thanks for the suggestion! I considered a bedside commode last year when I was non-weight-bearing for five months after breaking my foot horizontally and vertically. But I decided the gross smell it would create in my bedroom wasn’t worth it; I have a sensitive nose and think I would have spilled it when wheeling/crutching back to the toilet in the mornings. But I’m getting knee replacements in 2023, hopefully ASAP. Since I’m told by everyone, including my own doctors, that I’ll be in the worst pain of my life for at least eight weeks per knee, I may get a commode. It doesn’t sound like they give much pain medication with knee replacements (so what else is new?) so I’m going to want to walk as little as possible, though I have to move to avoid blood clots.
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Snow, looking at knees and hips upcoming though spread over the course of a few years. Knee is causing continual limp. Doing what I do I have heard so many say after surgery they feel better almost immediately. This does not mean there is no surgical pain but the arthritic pain is no more.
I pray you will have an easy go of it and enjoy a speedy recovery.
I pray you will have an easy go of it and enjoy a speedy recovery.
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We've tried several over the years but prefer the Protect-A-Bed Waterproof Mattress Pad Protectors. It's washable, quiet, doesn't make you sweat and they last a long time.
https://www.hollandersleepproducts....84-PB.html?cgid=mattress-pads-toppers#start=1
https://www.hollandersleepproducts....84-PB.html?cgid=mattress-pads-toppers#start=1
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@snow - I hope that your knee surgery goes well. Everyone I know who has had it done says the same thing. Move! Not fun,but very necessary. In the end, they all absolutely love their "new knees". Just can't get on your hands and knees anymore I am told. A friend of mine had both of hers done at the same time. Yikes! Here is to your wonderful new knees and a much improved 2023! - Pam
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@snow - I don't why I didn't see your post. We have lived in Reno and now the high desert in SoCal, plus a bunch of places in between. Some how the wood has remained in one piece. Because my husband has had that California king longer than he has had me - If we ever get divorced - he gets the bed! - Pam
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@snow, I did not know about your upcoming knee replacement surgery. Ouch! I hope it repairs at least some of your issues.
Back in the 70's my Grandpa sold off the farm incrementally to pay for joint replacement surgeries. He got Rheumatoid Arthritis at 48 years old and died at 68. He sold off acreage to pay for both hips and both knees to be replaced. Heartbreaking to watch, even when I was a teenager.
Back then it was pioneering technology though. These days, they've gotten so much better!
So, I know what you're looking at, but after your recovery, I think life will be much better for you. I certainly hope so!!
Back in the 70's my Grandpa sold off the farm incrementally to pay for joint replacement surgeries. He got Rheumatoid Arthritis at 48 years old and died at 68. He sold off acreage to pay for both hips and both knees to be replaced. Heartbreaking to watch, even when I was a teenager.
Back then it was pioneering technology though. These days, they've gotten so much better!
So, I know what you're looking at, but after your recovery, I think life will be much better for you. I certainly hope so!!
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@spicewerx @Boomersway and all, Thank you for your kind words. My knee surgeries will likely have to wait until at least March for financial and occupational reasons. I will leave a note here in advance just in case there is a complication with anesthesia and I don’t return. I think I’ll be just fine.
@spicewerx Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story. Quite sad.
@spicewerx Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story. Quite sad.
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