Obviously...

Last night I went to bed normal time and Jeff (my husband) was still awake. I fell asleep OK and was in a blissful warm, comfy slumber when I get rudely awakened by Jeff's voice almost yelling "Oh My God! What happened here? Wake up!"

I crack an eye open and look at the clock. Its 1:30 in the morning and Jeff is standing at his side of the bed looking mildly panicked and pointing at the bed. He says, "The bed is soaked! All the way through the blankets!"

Well, that didn't make sense to me because I was still quite warm and comfy in that same bed and not at all wet. In my hazy state I remembered how our bed is a tube water bed, meaning the water is held in long individual tubes. There are four on "my side" and four on "his side" of the bed. My next thought was, "Obviously, the problem is on your side of the bed... so I can go back to sleep."

I went to roll back over and go to sleep and my hand touched the "border" between my side and his side of the bed and that was wet. It seemed I was lying in the last warm and dry spot on the whole bed and the wetness was busy encroaching. *sigh* so I got up and helped him strip the bed, take it apart and take out the four water bed tubes that had all sprung leaks mysteriously at the same time. Took them to the bathroom to drain in the tub.. sprayed water bed water all over the bathroom floor, etc, etc.

The whole bed, even under "my side" was wet. Jeff and I spent the night sleeping on the couch downstairs. The mattress portion of the bed is taken apart and hopefully drying. Don't know if we will need to be replacing the whole mattress and four tubes or just four tubes or if this is a sign that we should replace ALL tubes.. The bed is close to 10 years old and plastic can weaken (as we saw last night).