Spoonie castle

This last week has shown me how much I have set up my life, and my house, to accommodate my M.E./CFS Spoonie-ness.

Over Christmas we spent two nights at my mother-in-law's, and now we are house-sitting in a beautiful place near the beach. It's a magnificent house, but not quite set up for a Spoonie.

from weheartit.com

Some ways I've made our house more Spoonie friendly:

washing detergent. I use earth-friendly products, so as not to further poison our waterways. I noticed they don't here when the sheets smelt so strongly of chemicals I had to get out a new Christmas candle! (thx 2 my MIL for the beautiful lavender scent!)
high quality sheets. The sheets don't matter so much as the pillowcases. I can't stand rough material on my face.
Proper bed. I spent two nights on a trampoline-type sofa bed. No one has ever woken from a sofa-bed and said "gee, I slept well last night". Particularly not a hyper-sensitive Spoonie. I had a 30 minute rant last night about the sofa bed, so I'll spare you and just say I was longing to just roll out the yoga mat & sleep on that!
Proper pillow. I have one of those funny shaped memory foam pillows. Sooo good. Handle a good old Spoonie Migraine no worries. Brought this with me, so no worries here.
Dog. We get a free holiday here near the beach with the proviso that we walk the dog. There are many things I love about our cat, and one of them is that he doesn't need walking!!