<p>I think you may need to move on from this.</p>
<p>My D faced a health related issue as a first semester freshman, not to the severity of your D’s but she did learn a lot from it. Like the poster, we did not realize the severity of her health situation until it was too late and she failed a class. She arrived home with bacterial pneumonia AND mono and an enlarged kidney the day her finals were over (based on emergency doctor’s assessment) and it took the entire break and then into the next semester for her to recover. (It is possible to have both, believe it or not.)</p>
<p>Although she was extremely sick, she did not do anything about it at the time. For example, a professor walked up to her while she was in the middle taking a final and expressed concern about how sick she appeared and asked her if she would LIKE to postpone the final! She thanked them, but took the final anyway! Another final was right after that and at that point, she could barely make it through the exam. The professor was out having a baby (and had a sub for the last several classes prior) so she took the final sick as a dog. Sure enough, she failed. The school policy - fail the final - automatic class failure. During break, she went to the Dean and e-mailed the professor and explained her situation - she had the medical records to prove her illness. No recourse. She took a gamble - she wasn’t really expecting much but at least she faced up to the consequences. She took it again at a CC and transferred in an A, which did not obviously get factored into her GPA but fulfilled the requirement.The F did remain on the transcript but was removed from the GPA. </p>
<p>Ironically her roommate was hospitalized the night before a final the second semester. She was pretty sick and they wanted to keep her longer, but she got up the next morning without sleeping at all, left the hospital, took a cab back to school and got an A on her Physiology final. She then went home and was admitted back into the hospital where it was discovered she had Lyme Disease.</p>
<p>Is there a moral to the story? I guess sometimes you just have to accept that things happen in life. Sometimes kids learn lessons in the School of Hard Knocks. It’s your D’s lesson to learn unfortunately though.</p>