Since I'm soon going to be "opiate-free", I am having to dial up all sorts of my non-medical tools. Stretches. Ridiculously long and deep foot massages. Soaks. Yesterday we bought a portable air conditioner for the bedroom. In reality there are probably 10 days/nights a summer when it becomes hot. I'm thinking of trying to pin my doctor down on whether she thinks air conditioning would be helpful. I just cannot imagine piling heat misery on top of a bad pain day. It is appearing more and more that weather changes can push up the pain a point or 2.

The point of this piece is they had 2 models. One 10K BTU and the other (14K BTU). The first one bragged 38 db sound. The second one had no information on the box and the women at customer service couldn't locate some. I wanted the higher capacity because our bedroom is on the second floor and is hit full0on with sun from the south, but would take less because of the noise issue. She told me to buy it and if it is too loud, simply bring it back.

"What's the deadline, 30 days", I asked.

She smiled and nodded.

"60 days?"

Another smile and nod.

"Christmas"

A slightly bigger smile.


So this is just a heads-up out there. Costco may let you buy and later return it (but I would probably not be able to keep the $50.00 discount instant-rebate customer incentive).