I'm afraid this is a dilemma similiar to what I had as a teenager but now I'm reliving it as an adult.
I am a graduate student, which I've said before. I will be presenting at three conferences in the next month. As most graduate students are, I am pratically broke so I try to save money when I can. The way I am doing it is by sharing a hotel room at these conferences. But my big dumb brain just didn't think that one through very well.
It's been years since I have had to be in the same hotel room with someone I did not know well. High school field trips was the last time. Since then all trips have been taken with family, friends, or roommates. All of them were aware of all of my health issues. I am honest with those three groups of people.
However, I agreed to share a room at the first conference with three people (everyone gets their own bed this way). At the second and third conference, which run back to back, I agreed to share a room with another person in a nice hotel that has a hostel-like bathroom situation (so I imagine one can't occupy the bathroom for hours in order to do treatments). In both cases, these people are my classmates and will be my colleagues and in the same job market when we graduate. They also know people who may hire me in the future. It's a relatively small field.
These people are new classmates who are acquaintances but not yet friends. CF has never come up. It was just never appropriate in any conversations we've had because they have pretty much revolved around school/research. Let's do mixed methods and by the way I have cf just never went together.
I am beginning to feel very uncomfortable about this and wish I had just gotten my own hotel room. I did do the teenage thing and think about not worrying about treatments but I do not have this luxury, particularly not for a week and a half at a time.
Thoughts and suggestions on how to broach this with my hotel-mates/classmates/future work colleagues. Thanks for your help.
I am a graduate student, which I've said before. I will be presenting at three conferences in the next month. As most graduate students are, I am pratically broke so I try to save money when I can. The way I am doing it is by sharing a hotel room at these conferences. But my big dumb brain just didn't think that one through very well.
It's been years since I have had to be in the same hotel room with someone I did not know well. High school field trips was the last time. Since then all trips have been taken with family, friends, or roommates. All of them were aware of all of my health issues. I am honest with those three groups of people.
However, I agreed to share a room at the first conference with three people (everyone gets their own bed this way). At the second and third conference, which run back to back, I agreed to share a room with another person in a nice hotel that has a hostel-like bathroom situation (so I imagine one can't occupy the bathroom for hours in order to do treatments). In both cases, these people are my classmates and will be my colleagues and in the same job market when we graduate. They also know people who may hire me in the future. It's a relatively small field.
These people are new classmates who are acquaintances but not yet friends. CF has never come up. It was just never appropriate in any conversations we've had because they have pretty much revolved around school/research. Let's do mixed methods and by the way I have cf just never went together.
I am beginning to feel very uncomfortable about this and wish I had just gotten my own hotel room. I did do the teenage thing and think about not worrying about treatments but I do not have this luxury, particularly not for a week and a half at a time.
Thoughts and suggestions on how to broach this with my hotel-mates/classmates/future work colleagues. Thanks for your help.