I suffer from Chronic fatigue - a room would have been wonderful - our
hall rooms are also too far away - when you've got to crash you've got
to crash!! I made do with trains, buses, loos and crashing out in the
empty bodywork rooms at lunchtime or other empty rooms when I needed to
but then I could have fallen asleep on a pinhead! I even managed to
find an odd pillow or so but that's because they are used for bodywork.
Didn't always feel wonderfully safe but then I was too tired to care
and too stubborn to give up! I was also quite exhausted by the battle
I'd already had trying to get the things I did manage to get to take on
anymore conflict. Sometimes trying to get the help you need is more
energy sapping than you save when (if) the help comes. On days when I
didn't have the energy to get home or if my schedule required that I
come in on two consecutive days I stayed overnight and yes I paid
London hotel room fees but not the Ritz. Getting a decent meal was
more of an issue.
You'd probably need a room on each campus site - I can recall being
horrified at people suggesting I walk what I now know is around 5 mins
- when I was bad everything seemed so much further away and took too
much energy to get there.
Of course the sacrifice you pay for using all the breaks to sleep or
rest is that you never get to know or chat to your colleagues on the
course. If you need to need a laptop then you need to sit near the
power point and that's usually not where anyone else wants to sit......
but hey at least you get retrained and eventually maybe can start
recontributing to society again.
kind regards
Elaine
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