A few years ago, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and decided to keep a sort of diary of my experiences and thoughts. This essay is a collection of what I call “episodes” and uses writing and drawing to try to capture something beyond the surface impressions of living with a chronic condition. I present several episodes drawn from the collection that I have been keeping since 2018. In presenting these pieces, I explore the immediate, felt, and affectual geographies of a chronic disease, in an effort to understand the body, chronic disease, corporeal experiences, and the relationship between failure and medicine. The collection foregrounds how the doing of cultural geography is an affective, experiential journey through our bodies, spaces, and times.

几年前，我被诊断出患有类风湿性关节炎，并决定记录下我的经历和想法。这篇文章是我所谓的“剧集”的集合，并使用写作和绘画来尝试捕捉慢性病患者的表面印象之外的东西。我展示了自 2018 年以来我一直在收藏的系列中的几集。 在展示这些作品时，我探索了慢性病的直接、感觉和情感地理，努力了解身体、慢性病、身体体验，以及失败与医学的关系。该系列突出了文化地理学如何成为穿越我们身体、空间和时间的情感体验之旅。