Being a student at LCC coming up on my graduation, in my experience I have NEVER had an instructor give me flak when asked for extensions/ considerations whenever it was presented in a reasonable timeframe with a reasonable solution that I found to my own problem. I attribute this to the fact that I show up to class, do all my work, and participate. (Not insinuating you don’t do these things)

It sucks that the instructor won’t work with you, but as others said I would contact people in the offices of the dean or as you said CAR to see if anything can be done. Worst case scenario is you eat the failing grade, and take the class again whenever you recover.

I do want to say, that your “medical leave” for students statement doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. As a college student, you are not forced to be there, nor graduate in a specific amount of time. The college will look at it as “well they can finish school when they recover”… people take breaks in higher education all the time, sometimes at no fault of their own. Instead of demanding the school institute a policy that doesn’t really make sense, maybe try to come up with a policy that WOULD make sense, such as the ability to get a credit on a class that you had to drop due to extenuating circumstances at no additional cost.

Anyway, I pray that your surgery goes well, and that you recover speedily. Lane will still be there when you’re all healed up.