End of term blog

So here it is the last week of this term and I feel as if I have completed absolutely nothing. I have been so sick this term that it seems as if everything I learned has flown out the window.
The advice I have for someone just entering a college level english class would be to give themselves plenty of time to work on their assignments. I didn't have a lot of spare time this term and it caused me to be behind on a lot of work. I would also tell them to take advantage of any help the professor is offering to them and if a writing center is available to take use of it and ask plenty of questions. And remind them that the only stupid questions are the ones that are never asked.
Leaving this term I feel as if I am always going to struggle with english. Honestly it is my least favorite subject and really wish it was not a necessary class needed to graduate.

Professor you have been absolutely wonderful working with me these last 10 weeks and I want to thank you for all your help and support. To my classmates, I wish you all the best of luck in your upcoming classes. Hope to meet you all at graduation.

Number Nine, number nine, number nine (Beatle's reference there)

So here it is the ninth unit of this term and I still feel as if I haven't accomplished much of anything this term. My rough draft for my english paper is still only half done due to my medical issues. As I have stated before I had lithotripsy and stent placement on my right kidney on Jan. 21. I faired very well through this procedure until about a week later when I started having pain on my right side. Follow up x-ray and doctor visit showed an immense amount of stone particles just sitting in my right ureter and my urologist informed me that they were not only what was causing my pain but that those particles were most likely going to remain there until he could remove the stent. I was OK with that at first because I figured I'd be admitted this week to have the stent removed, I was wrong. My urologist can't get me into the hospital to remove the stent and stone particles until Feb. 18th. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that on Feb. 18th not only is he going to remove the stent and stone particles, I also have to have round 2 of lithotripsy on my right kidney because I had a large amount of stones in that kidney to begin with that he could not safely blast all of them at one time. This means that I will be left to deal with the pain and discomfort for the next two weeks, trust me this is not fun to go through. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. It's been two weeks since the lithotripsy was done and although I drink close to a gallon of water a day I still haven't passed any stone particles. Although I am on pain medication and antibiotics there have been 2 occasions in which the pain medication did absolutely nothing which only leads me to call my urologist only to be told to go to the local ER for IV medications and CT scans to make sure the stone particles aren't obstructing anything.
Between the discomfort and the medications (even the antibiotic, Cipro, tends to make me sleepy nevermind what happens when I take the pain meds) it is really hard to focus on my schoolwork.
I'm lucky I have a fantastic english teacher. She has worked with me every step of the way, she understands what I am going through and has allowed me to take an incomplete which would allow me two extra weeks to complete my rough draft and final paper. If it wasn't for her working with me I could almost guarantee that I would have to repeat english again next term and I certainly don't want to do that.