I have a chronic respiratory illness* and often work from my bed. My condition means I\u2019m not able to sleep flat (something you don\u2019t realise is a luxury until it\u2019s taken away). But the plus side is that my specialist pillow puts me at the perfect angle to \u201clounge and work\u201d.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve purposefully covered the wall opposite my bed with a selection of beautiful art prints, so I have something to gaze at when I look up from my screen. The woman in the central print (by American painter Ryan Pickart) is called \u201cPina\u201d and I admit to occasionally talking to her.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve mocked up my photo to look like a polaroid picture to represent this is just a \u201csnapshot\u201d of one instance of what it\u2019s like to live with a chronic illness: other people\u2019s experiences of living with ill health are different from mine.<\/p>\n
(*I have idiopathic emphysema with focal collapse and fibrosis. There\u2019s usually at least one person who\u2019s interested in my diagnosis and I think sharing and allowing conversations helps the disabled community be seen.)<\/p>\n
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Sarah Marie Graye is in her second year of a part-time PhD in The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research at the University of Kent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a chronic respiratory illness* and often work from my bed. My condition means I\u2019m not able to sleep flat (something you don\u2019t realise is a luxury until it\u2019s taken away). But the plus side is that my specialist pillow puts me at the perfect angle to \u201clounge and work\u201d. I\u2019ve purposefully covered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,1,606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kent","category-uncategorised","category-university-of-kent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/journey-around-our-rooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}