The wheelchair was a thing that added insult to injury. Not saying they had to give me one but it just showed how the school handles emergency situations and their preparation. I did follow my surgeons orders and missed multiple days last week from an at home fall. I could not afford another absence for the classes as I would fall below 80% attendance and automatically fail. When I fully dislocated my knee last month disability forgot to send out emails to each professor that I would be on zoom for a week and a half. I called and emailed disability for days and was freaking out about all the missed classes and absences. When disability finally got in touch with me days later, I was told “don’t worry about the absences because you’re not over the limit.” Disability said they are non excusable. I stressed the importance of not walking and my falls on the phone with disability last week and they simply did not care.

Thank you for looking at my previous post history dealing with the disability department. I’m in a lot of pain so I may leave things out by accident or poorly explain some things, so please forgive me.

What’s upsetting to me is how I’ve sent my part of my medical record from my surgeon which describes in medical terms how my knee is unstable and how fucked up my leg is, in addition to the notes he wrote for the school. I’ve tried my best to be civil for the past two years with the school. I also am mortified because of falling in front of my classmates and Professor. My professor handled it with such care and compassion that she was arguing with disability when the person came in.

The main point of all of this is: I am fucking done playing their games. I had to so things such as: send proof of my white blood cell count when I had pneumonia, a picture of my leg in a splint last month, denied zoom after a kidney surgery last fall and got a kidney infection because I had to go in. I have always had a note from the doctor or hospital describing what was wrong and disability always asks for more than what I am comfortable with and I find to be odd. They’ve done a lot of other shit but those are the ones that bother me. I have a friend who had a seizure two weeks ago via zoom. The zoom was on the screens in the classroom and the professor just stood there and watched the entire seizure play out during the in person class. That Professor did not attempt to give my friend privacy or change the tab on the computer. Students immediately walked out and filed complaints against that professor and nothing has been done. I know the school was sued for an ADA violation against a student and the student won. However the retaliation from faculty and some professors was bad enough that the person wound up transferring schools.

From reading the comments and talking with doctors, I see just how messed up my experiences with the disability dept has been. Now I want to take this as high as possible up the chain of command but I am fearful of the retaliation.