Today, my professor informed me that if I didn't "show more commitment" to my choral ensemble he would give my spot to a "more interested young woman." I missed class to see my neurologist. Apparently my seizures are a symptom of lack of commitment. FML
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Today, I had a seizure in class. Being an epileptic, I had warned my professor of the possibility that I could have one in class. She was understanding and seemed very concerned about my issue at the time. After I had the seizure, however, she asked me if I had ever tried exorcism. FML
Today, I had a seizure for the first time in months. My fiancé went over to my job to let them know I wouldn't be going in. My boss bitched both of us because I didn't call myself. Sure, I'll get right on that when I'm conscious. FML
Today, I tried to explain to my professor why I’d missed two classes. Even with a doctor’s note explaining my very serious health issues, she rolled her eyes and huffed, "Maybe if you’re ‘oh so sick,’ you should just drop out!” Gee, sorry for trying to improve my life through adversity. FML
Today, I told my professor that I'll be missing class next week due to upcoming surgery. I asked if I could take the exam that I'd otherwise miss another day. He said no, and that I'd just have to take a failing grade, then wished me luck with the surgery. FML
Today, my piano teacher told me that she "forgot" to inform me that she volunteered me to play a 5-page song in a recital in front of 300 people that's happening next week. FML
Today, I performed in my school's choir concert. The girl next to me started to pass out, and I grabbed her so she wouldn't hit her head. After we were done performing and the curtains closed, my choir teacher dragged me off stage and said I was getting an F for "creating a distraction". FML
Today, I explained to my teacher that I wasn't at school yesterday due to three doctor appointments for my moderate epilepsy. Yesterday was senior skip day. She gave me detention for lying. FML
Today, my professor gave me a huge lecture in front of the class about showing up sick, about how I was endangering the lives of other students, and kicked me out of class. As I left, everyone applauded. I'm not sick, but suffering for horrible allergies. FML
Today, I found out that I'm failing this semester because I've missed too many classes. I've missed the classes because I've been having panic attacks, a symptom of my anxiety disorder. I got the anxiety disorder because I was so afraid of failing school. FML
Today, my college class has a strict rule that ANY absence, even if it's because you're sick and have a doctor's note, will drop your grade a letter grade. I have a chronic illness. Today is the second time in the first two weeks that I've had to show up to class with a bucket. FML
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redbluegreen 41
Don't you just love professors and their assholery?
peaceloveswim94 0
wow. im sorry to hear about such a rude professor.
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jennifer5 6
That professor is a dick. My professor's wont even excuse me if i am in the hospital. Your professor needs to realize that the after affect is really painful. When i got told i had epilepsy at age 15 (19 now), when i had a grand mal life sucked! It took me months to get my back set in place, i was in pain for a month of that, and the fear of having one in public is horrifying! Not only does the seizures suck but the medicine is much worse if your allergic to it. Random nose bleeds in class, seeing and hearing things thinking someone is talking to you and you answering back in a complete silent class. So i know what your talking about. College is a lot different than high school. IT SUCKS! I had a professor not even a week ago call me a daddy's girl because I didn't have a book. Excuse me for loving my father because he pays for my $200 medicine each month, hospital bills, the best doctors so i don't end up in the hospital. So I completely understand. FYL and FML!
conholio33 28
Agree with you 100% having seizures in public not knowing what will happen is a very scary thing...( been with epilespy since age 6 now in my 20's) and grand mals are the worst i had one that caused me to loose my memory and i now have short term memory loss becuse of it plus trying to afford medications each month is expensive ($500+ per mo for my meds)
Mata_Hari 0
Did you TELL professor beforehand? I mean, if this was an appointment you've known about for quite awhile, then you can't just whine about his "asshole-ness" if he didn't know. And for one thing, it's not that big deal, you could have just explained why you missed the class and offered up the neurologist's phone number. If it was an appointment, YDI. But if it was an emergency trip and your professor being is being quite an asshole for missing one class? FYL.
risquredhead 0
When you need to see a specialist, you don't always get to pick a very convenient time, she probably didn't have much choice in the timing.
Mata_Hari 0
But then if the timing was inconvenient, if she was notified a good few hours in advanced, then she could have called the professor and let him know she'd be unable to attend? Or is seeing a specialist a kind of here and NOW thing?
cxal_fml 0
It can be - it all depends on the individual, doctor and situation. I've had neurologists where I had to schedule my appointment 4 months in advance, and I've had instances where I had to see the neurologist on less than a day's notice due to side effects that may have been nothing or may have been life threatening. Also a person whose been controlled for years, suddenly having a seizure without a known cause (late medicine, eating fruit/caffeine/soy) will need to see the doctor immediately, and sometimes that means an hour after you called the office. the other thing is that neurologists know you can't just walk out and get another doctor to see you without a long weight, and so they don't hesitate to regularly cancel and reschedule your appointments without notice. I've had one doctor whose office called me and said they moved my appointment to "today" because the doctor had decided to take tomorrow off.
Egotistical 0
When I was younger the doctors told my mother to jeep watch on me at all times because I am going to have seizures. I've yet to have one but they said it'll happen in my late teenage years. I'm 15 and a half so it sucks knowing that soon I'll have a seizure. I hope it's not in school. And I have to get tests done all the time so op FYL AND FML "I smell burnt toast." definitly going to use that tommorrow
allmidnighteyes 11
1980 called. They want Ian Curtis back.
viturningviolet 0
#34: Ignorant much? My sister is having seizures as part of an adrenal disorder, so I feel I am able to enlighten you a bit. Grand mal seizures are only ONE type of seizure. Some don't even cause a loss of consciousness or any dramatic physical reaction, but rather a loss of memory, temporary confusion or disorientation, trouble speaking or writing, or jerking of a very isolated part of the body, such as a hand. So if that's the kind of seizure this person is having, probably the only affect it would have on a rehearsal is that she'd have to sit for a few minutes or just take extra notes, or, in this case, go to a neurologist to figure out the cause or area of a seizure and actually deal with the problem (which, by the way, is possible, if there is a discernible and treatable cause). So if she's having grand mal seizures you'd maybe be justified in saying she should step back from the ensemble, if only because it sucks to fall off a riser. If it's partial or absence seizures, then you need to back off. Op, FYL.
noshitsherlock 0
UH YOU DESERVE IT FOR WRITING THIS FML. How about getting off the internet and TELLING your prof why you couldn't make it. OBVIOUSLY seizures are serious business and a valid reason to miss class.
kellster 2
Did you consider maybe telling your prof beforehand that you had these appointments? I'd do the same thing if someone just kept missing classes or ensembles without notice or explanation! And if they were last-minute things that you didn't have notice for, that's why doctors' notes were invented! Seems like a little planning could have spared you the lecture!
ragsy 7
No, idiot, scheduling appointments during rehearsal shows your lack of commitment. Stop blaming everyone else for your own inadequacies.
randomness28 0
Really? Are you kidding? Sometimes it's not that easy to get appointments. Maybe she had no other option? Don't be so quick to judge.
cxal_fml 0
Have you ever tried to schedule an appointment with a neurologist? It takes me 4 months to get in unless I happen to call right after someone cancels their appointment. (When I first start looking for a neurologist, the one I went to was the only one in the area who could see me within 7 months!)
pogostick_fml 2
Idiot of a professor.
puppy_love 0
Are you at SFA? Sounds like a director I once knew. . .