Adored Wife, among the many other challenges that go with being here, has chronic nerve and muscle pain relating to some collapsed disks in her neck. Surgery helped, but there appears to be some long-lasting (and perhaps permanent) nerve damage.
The end result is that she can't be upright for excessive lengths of time without having to lie down to take the pressure off her neck. She can last longer standing up than sitting down, oddly enough.
So she's a connoisseur of couches. Some years back when this was first becoming a problem, pre-surgery, she and the kids went on an extended road trip to visit several old friends. She spent a fair amount of time in the van with the seat leaning back, and she did most of her visiting lying down on various living room couches talking to her cronies.
At church she's been known to stretch out on some comfy chairs in the choir room. When she directed a play recently we actually kept a "stage furniture" bed complete with foam rubber mattress in the rehearsal space and she did a lot of her job from the horizontal position. There's also an amusement park we like (bizarrely, certain full-neck-support roller coasters she can ride) and she knows where every bench is--she'll have some fun for twenty minutes, then stretch out on a bench for ten, using her purse as a pillow.
And, yes, she knows where all the couches are.
Need to know something about a place to lie down somewhere? Adored Wife can hook you up.
Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.
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