I've had to take nine months out of uni because of various health problems and my course being really intensive and stuff didn't really work around the trips home/in hospital I needed. Now my course means such a lot to me and if I lose it I lose all my career which kinda sucks.
On Thursday I've got a medical at college to see if I'm fit enough to go back and I'M SCARED!!! Probably coz I know I'm not really fit enough but anyway, the guys that I work with have told me to lie if I have to so that's my plan!!!
Guess I just want reassurance and for people to wish me luck! And if theres anyone that's been in the same situation I'd like to hear from you!
I've already skipped most ofthe year, I won't be going back until september so i will be a year behind most of friends. I've done all the work for the first 4 weeks anyway and a lot of it up to week 8 so at least it'll be an easy start back. I can also do all of the lecture work that they are doing right now so i'm gonna start doing that more the few weeks before i go back to get me used to it.
The problem is no-one knows whether I will ever be ok again. It's mostly due to back problems which I've been told a few times now may never go as I've had them for 7 yrs now (hmm, i've just realised thats like a third of my life!).
Thanks guys, I'm hoping it'll go well. Going back down to my uni house tomorrow to sort stuff out for going back in Sept/ get sorted for my medical, seems so strange!
I'm a vet student so even though now coz of my health I'll only be working with small animals (family pets) once i've qualified I've gotta do work with farm animals and horses to get the degree which could be a problem. Hopefully it'll be ok, I'm just a bit worried about lectures and keeping up and stuff coz though I'm usually ok with the work load, when my pain levels get really bad (which can last for a week at a time and a couple of days every week) I can struggle to even get out of bed and dressed (yet still manage to hide it from my parents!) nevermind concentrate in lectures. I'm not too good this morning so I am getting a bit worried! I think I'll go and talk to a few different people around uni on Thursday and see what I can get sorted, I know I can now get my exams changed so I get extra time, have a better chair and stuff. And my practical exams (for the meantime) can be altered a bit.
Guess I've just got to wait and see, one of my best mates will be in my new year (and several other people I know) so at least I'm not starting totally alone
Good luck, but remember, theres no point lying if in the long run it isnt going to help.
im in a similar position to you, i had to leave uni and i need a medical note saying that i am fit enough to return. I want to start again in september but i know that if i lie and that let me back, im not going to be any better and its all going to be too much and ill end up in hosp again.
Only go back if you are sure that is what you want to do. you dont want to find yourself back and not being able to cope with it.
But good luck in whatever you decide, i hope it all works out for the best.
if you go back can you say that you need extra support, there must be something set up to help you. like more lenient on deadlines and things like that, it worth looking into.
We don't really tend to have deadlines. Because our course has so many lectures and our timetable is so busy we don't do essays and projects and stuff, it's mainly just exams we have to work for and then a few presentations. I'm hoping that, so long as I don't do anything stupid, I won't injure my back and most evenings I'll be able to keep up with the work (because I can just about all the time now) and most days the lectures will be fine. I think it's more the practical stuff that will be the problem and then maybe just the large animal stuff. I dunno. So long as I don't start fitting again I should be fine (the only problem is they think I was fitting because of the stress I put myself under through ignoring the pain in my back and getting on with life... I guess I get severe pain for a reason!). There's a limit to how much I can lie. It's on my records there that my back still isn't great and as I'm going through a bad phase I think if they actually come to look at my movement, which I gather they will, then they'll know straight away that I'm not right but I'll just have to see. I guess it depends on how good they think I need to be which is something they've not told me.
Re asking for help, please do when you need to. I hate asking for help myself so that is a litle hypocritical but have realised recently that everyone needs a little help with something at some point.
"Everything is possible through Christ, who gives me strength". Phillipians 4:13
