I know there have been other discussions on this, and I'll search for them later, but I'm so foggy-brained I can barely focus on what I'm thinking. My school doesn't have a disability office. Instead, I go to the office of the dean. This seems to work fine for people with ADHD and dyslexia, but I'm such a unique case to them that they have apparently called in experts because they don't know what to do with me. I go to a private school and, at least in the English department, after 2 absences you fail a class. This doesn't apply to me, although profs are allowed to appeal to a committee to try to stop unlimited absence allowance. (Apparently I have a good advocate on the current committee, because thus far no one has succeeded.) I'm have a heck of a quarter right now, though, and I'm really behind in my work. This is due to waking up without vision, periods of unconsciousness, loss of use of my legs, etc, etc, any POTS symptom that makes it difficult for me to function outside of my bed. On the one hand, the dean's office is trying to help me. The assistant who does the work believes that I'm intelligent and hard-working and tries to do what she can for me. The head of my academic department, though, is "expressing concerns" again. She thinks that I'm being allowed too many benefits, and is worried about fairness to other students and such. I understand that being sick doesn't make me queen and I don't expect to be treated that way. I DO expect people to at least TRY to understand that I'm so far behind because at times I am not capable of doing the work, period. I'm busting my butt when I can, but lately I've needed 10-12 hours of sleep at night and that makes things difficult. I know that I can do this work, I just can't do it on their schedule. I'm in my junior year, and I've made it through as a full time student so far, even if I have to go as minimum full time. I'm not willing to give up my full time status right now when I know I've hit a rough patch that I can get through. (Next quarter I am taking a lighter/easier load, which will help) One option I've been given is to withdraw for the quarter, but our quarters are 10 weeks long and this is week 7. I would be losing A LOT of work into classes that I'll have to take again if I withdraw. Mostly I guess this is a rant, but for those of you in college or who have been through college with POTS, what does your university do to help you or what is the policy? Does it work for you or do you feel like you're always fighting the system? I'm frustrated to tears. Meg