Katie, did you lose your permanent immigration visa? I thought I lost my wallet in Cuba one day, we ended up finding it under the bed. In the meantime though I was a mess, and the part that made me the most nervous was the paperwork and BS I would have to go through to replace the visa. I have heard that when they replace them now you no longer get one that is permanent but one that has to be renewed every 2 years. I was in such a state. I had cleared almost all my credit cards and such out of the wallet before we left, taking only one debit and credit card from a Canadian/Mexican bank (Scotia) that works in Cuba. So, I figured I had one afternoon at the bank to fix that, but then maybe weeks or months to fix the visa. I was soooo happy when we found my wallet. I had taken a nap and it had fallen out of my pocket and gotten kicked under the bed.
As for the mattress, my old one was from Costco and was a foam/memory foam. The new one is a Sealy from a department store here, Liverpool, and pretty much the same combo. The old one lasted about 9 years so that seems a reasonable life to me, I don't know. What my worker is telling me is that the ants were not inside the mattress after all but on the floor and going up the bed skirt and into the box springs. He sprayed the box springs and the floor and the walls and the hole in the concrete steps that lead into the bedroom where they were coming out. Hopefully by the time the new mattress gets here we'll have them gone. I think they said it was a 15 day process for order and delivery.
