{"id":1034,"date":"2019-09-12T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:24:48","slug":"pain-runs-down-my-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/pain-runs-down-my-face\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pain Runs Down My Face&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Original Article:<br>Arthritis Through Art: Have You Ever Had a Pain Flare  So Bad You Couldn\u2019t Even Speak?<br>by Creaky Staff featuring art by Jennifer Walker<br>https:\/\/creakyjoints.org\/poets-artists-corner\/arthritis-art-pain-runs-down-my-face\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0219_Arthritis-Art_Pain-Down-My-Face-1024x683-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0219_Arthritis-Art_Pain-Down-My-Face-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0219_Arthritis-Art_Pain-Down-My-Face-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0219_Arthritis-Art_Pain-Down-My-Face-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0219_Arthritis-Art_Pain-Down-My-Face-1024x683-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0219_Arthritis-Art_Pain-Down-My-Face-1024x683-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Title: Pain Runs Down My Face<br>Date Created: October 2016<br>Medium: Graphite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJennifer Walker, of San Antonio, Texas, lives with\nrheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia. She\u2019s a computer\nsoftware engineer by day, but her passion is her art \u2014 a medium through which\nshe can uniquely convey what it\u2019s like to physically and emotionally cope with\nchronic pain\u2026 I was overdoing it as usual at the time \u2014 taking care of everyone\nelse instead of myself. I was not listening to my body and its pain signals. I\ndid not start listening to my body until it was screaming at me and then I\ncould hardly function. My hips locked up and would not move more than two\ninches in any direction. I got stuck on the couch \u2014 unable to eat, go to the\nbathroom, tolerate much noise, or be touched. As the pain got worse and worse,\nI lost the ability to talk. All I could do was cry and make these guttural\nsounds. It lasted several hours and left me totally exhausted\u2026 This piece is\ncalled \u2018Pain Runs Down My Face\u2019 because I could not talk or communicate. I felt\nlike I was mute and wearing a theater mask with the expression plastered to my\nface. After the flare I could not even talk about what happened. I had no words\u2026\nI remember crying and being unable to communicate. I remember the fear that\nenveloped me and consumed me and made me unable to talk about it for days\nafter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This piece and artist dive into the terrifying experience of going through a bad arthritis flare. I feel as if I learned a lot about how devastating the effects of arthritis can be, and\u2014as a designer\u2014see the need to design the world to be compatible for individuals who are already going through so much.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Article:Arthritis Through Art: Have You Ever Had a Pain Flare So Bad You Couldn\u2019t Even Speak?by Creaky Staff featuring art by Jennifer Walkerhttps:\/\/creakyjoints.org\/poets-artists-corner\/arthritis-art-pain-runs-down-my-face\/ \u201cJennifer Walker, of San Antonio, Texas, lives with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia. She\u2019s a computer software engineer by day, but her passion is her art \u2014 a medium through which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[98,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-1034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-featured","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arthritis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}