A Raisin in the Nose*

What happens to a thing pushed up a nose?*

Does it dry up                                                   
like a raisin in the sun?                                  
Or fester like a sore--                                    
And then run?                                                  
Does it stink like rotten meat?                  
Or crust and sugar over--                             
like a syrupy sweet?                                      

Maybe it just sags                                           
like a heavy load. 

Or does it explode?



For the record, if something is pushed up a nose so far that you can't see it, it won't "work its way out." A raisin in a nose, for instance, needs immediate removal. If you wait till tomorrow, the raisin will have increased 5** times its entry size, causing irritation, swelling and infection to the nose/sinuses. Plus, the rehydrated raisin will not be removed in one piece, causing more "irritation" to all involved.

*Langston Hughes' original title and opening line are "A Raisin in the Sun" and "What happens to a dream deferred?"

**This is an approximate figure. And, I was only TOLD about these eventuallities. We had our raisin removed aproximately 30 minutes after insertion--but only because we were in the car running errands at the time and were passing by the good doc's office anyway.

The Result of Too Much Suffering

1.       I am confident that ANY mattress in the store would have been superior to our former mattress. But we didn’t buy just ANY mattress. No sir. We went straight to the top! Tempur-pedic Cloud. Oh yes we did. This is what happens when you suffer too long; you finally just snap and do something akin to overcompensating.

2.       Although all sales people lie, mattress sales people must be the worst.

“The gel beads keep the mattress cool.”

L: “So, this one [without gel beads] would be hotter?”

“No.” 

“It has a patented open cell technology that keeps air circulating.”

[later] “It is completely hypo-allergenic. No mites or dust can get in.”

“There’s no motion transfer because there are no springs.”

B: [later] “Then there really isn’t much use in these massaging/vibrating beds. They won’t work with the foam.”

“They work exactly like a spring bed.”

B: “But foam won’t transfer the motion the same way that the other beds do.”

“Yes it does.”

L: [whispers] “Just drop it. We aren’t getting it anyway.”

3.       I realize that my presidential vote could have been swung by promises of bettered sleep. We were told that Termpur-pedics will “change the way you sleep.” We were given several nice sounding but dubious reasons for this (none scientifically proven). Change is what we are after. Improvement. Rest is what we need.  Tempur-pedics claim to be the answer. Burn victims sleep on Tempur-pedics, for goodness sake! They have a model called the “Cloud”? Sold.

And does it work? Has change come to our home? Yes, my friends. I’ve never slept on my back in my adult life until this bed arrived—I didn’t think it was possible. How’s that for “changing the way you sleep”? Even better, the first night we had the bed I went from 4-5 wake-ups per night to 2 and it’s been like that since. Could a different mattress have accomplished this? Probably.

Still, Tempur-pedics are the #1 most recommended bed in America...
...and we aprove this message.