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Mikael and Mona Lindman live near Sweden's second-biggest lake, Vättern at Bankeryd in a delightful two-storey terrace house. Mikael is a professional ice-hockey player with and he trains every day in the huge ice-hockey stadium, Kinnarps Arena at Jönköping. At night Mona and Mikael sleep in a waterbed and have done so for the past eight years. It may seem like a coincidence, but it is also a fact that water is connected with many areas of Mikael's and Mona's lives.
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It is also a fact that Mikael has been a professional ice-hockey player for 15 years and has had an ordinary bed and a waterbed during that time. "I clearly feel that my back is not so tired when I sleep in a waterbed," says Mikael, who heard about waterbeds for the first time when a player from his team got involved in a furniture company which sold them. "There were a number of players on the team that bought a waterbed," relates Mikael, who hopes that, with the help of his waterbed, he can stay healthy for two or three more years in his professional career.
"Your back is strained in ice-hockey, because you skate bending forwards," relates Mikael, who has not been quite able to avoid injuries in this physically demanding sport. He has broken both ankle joints and most recently damaged two ribs. "It took me only two or three weeks to recover in the waterbed and even with broken ribs it was comfortable to lie in," says Mikael, who, apart from a three-week summer break, trains twice a day for one or two hours, every day.
Several moves, both in and outside the four walls of their home, mean the Lindman family's waterbed has been dismantled and put together again five or six times. This has done it no harm, which is good enough even though Mona has a little idea that at some time she would like to replace the big mattress with two individual mattresses. This would also mean she could have her own heating element, something she would be very pleased with, as she likes the bed warmer than Mikael, who prefers a colder temperature because he trains so much and often comes home hot and perspiring.
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