WPRI (Providence) Reporter Alexandra Leslie has cystic fibrosis, so when the COVID pandemic started, she was considered high-risk and forced her to start working from home.

13 months later, she is still doing her job from her living room.

“I said goodbye for the day and walked out the doors of WPRI on March 17, 2020, I knew it would be the last time I’d be there for a while. I certainly hoped I’d be back later in the year, but part of me just had a feeling it would be a significant amount of time. Did I think I’d write down “Work from Home: Day 258” in my day planner, however? No,” Leslie says about her last year plus.

She has made reporting on the pandemic her priority and she has done so from her living room TV studio.

“There have been some minor technical hiccups along the way, like how there can be in the field sometimes. However, my puggle, Eddie, has definitely become the star of “12 News This Morning” on a few occasions. I’ve shifted my set around a few times to accommodate him. One day, a bench was placed just in the right spot that when he jumped into view (to get my attention), his sweet, little face was just in view under a lower-third. He’s also been heard whining, and having pup dreams off-camera,” she says of her homecasting studio.

She has also found that being home gives her time to find more information for stories.

“The advantage of working from home is that I don’t need to move from place to place and can always have an eye on email and social media. I found I was able to post a lot more, and more quickly, than working in the field when you’re worried about your cell getting reception, a battery dying in the cold, etc,” she says.

Hopefully for her and all of us, it wouldn’t be another 13 months before we see her out of the house and back at the station.

H/T MSN