sweet dreams are made of this
By WILLIAM L. HAMILTONOCT. 2, 1997WE couldn't do much about the neighborhood's new motorcycle club. So we did something about the mattress.My back and I live together in a one bed room apartment. As we've gotten older, sleep has become a problem. How to get a good night's sleep?''Don't pay your bills and then hop into bed,'' said Dr. Daniel Wagner, the medical director of the Sleep-Wake Disorder Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Good advice; I intend to take it. But my back wanted facts it could act upon. ''Consider your bed carefully,'' said Dr. Gary Zammit, the director of the Sleep Disorders Institute at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. ''It amazes me when I go in a bedding store and see how people select a bed. This is a place where you're going to spend a third of your life.''AdvertisementIt should have been obvious from the start. A mattress is going to be your worst e...