in sickness and in health
The last few weeks I've been a combination of sick and extremely busy--mostly extremely busy because I was sick.
I first noticed my illness when I was actually in Cincinnati working for the weekend. I went to a doctor in Cinci, had doctors misdiagnose me, load me up on a number of different drugs, and then tell me that those drugs meant I couldn't drive. So no going back up to Columbus.
I did get several notes for professors and such explaining why I wasn't in class--that I really was in a hospital a hundred miles away and not just nursing a bad hangover--but I guess that doesn't matter to some professors.
I had a reading guide due in one of my classes the day I was in the hospital. I managed to send a copy up with my dad on a business trip to Columbus and get it to a friend and she delivered it to the professor's office the day after it was due along with a copy of my doctor's note ( I had already emailed all of my professors explaining the situation, the note I guess was just proof). And the professor took ten points off for it being late.
Normally ten points doesn't really matter, but in a class where every point counts towards the difference between an A and a B, I was a little upset. What, I'm wondering, could I have possibly done to not get points taken off? Like I said, it's not like I just didn't feel like coming to class that day--I was in a hospital 100 miles away. What was I supposed to do, have them send it on an aircare flight to the professor's office?
But I'm off now to spend every last penny I have putting gas in my car---tomorrow I move out of my house and back to Cincinnati (!).