You have got to be kidding me!!

[iwantmypup]

Hi,

Now..first, to any teachers, or anybody working in the public school system, this is not directed at you! This is only directed at the teachers at MY school..and some of the people at MY school district.

I went to school today, after being absent quite a bit due to my being sick.
So I go, blah blah blah.....Now it's time for PE. PE is the first class I have.
So I go..and great, we are running. I love to run, but after NOT running at all for quite a bit to then run lots...plus, with my condition...hell, I feel like crap!
So I go to the Nurses office, because as a student I have that right to go to the nurses office. So I go..OH! I need a hall pass...on passing period.. I go back to class.I decide not to get one because at this point my back hurts like hell because of all the book in it. I go next period..What? Another freaking hall passs? It's passing period!

So then..at lunch time, I go. I remember to tell them, " I don't have a hall pass because it's lunch". I see the nurse.....apperantly I am fine. Heart is beatin fast tho. Maybe because I know what their about to tell me.
"Well Alexandra, Have you eaten lunch?"
Um No...I spent all of my time here.
"Well....you haven't been at school very much, we need to to stay."
I think I said something like " I am here at school..I came in, I just don't feel well, and I need to go home."
Still no way,no how am I leaving.
So then I ask if I can call my mom.
She calls like.. 2 times and my mom was not at her desk.
Did you guys notice what I said?
She wouldn't let me call first...she had to call first.
So then at that point I start crying because not only will they NOT let me call...they will not let me go home.
It's not like I am going to go home and party hardy!!!
She even asked me..what I was going to do.
So I practically run out and go to my counsler...
In the most nastiest voice ever she said, " If the nurse says no."
Then I say that she won't let me even call. Then she is all like "Come with me and we'll call." No answer...AGAIN! Also she trys to pull the "You told us you would come to school".

and go to my friends..thank gosh my friend had her phone! So I go to a bathroom stall and call my mom, she wasn't at her desk. I called home..nobody picked up.

So they want me to come at go downstairs again at 2. I go, and they ask me how I'm feeling. I lie and say, I feel great and eating lunch really helped..blah blah blah, told them what they wanted to hear. FYI I never ate lunch..by the time I was done with them lunch was over!. :(

Oh whats this? NOW..NOW they let me call my mom. They wouldn't let me call before..but now...now that I feel so stupendus, hell, call her!

So I call, tell my mom I'm wonderful and go onto class.
I was so angry. Um...isn't in illegal to not let me call my mom? And what if I was having a heart attack?!?!? Is that anxiety also? Should I just go back to class and relax?
Will they believe me? Do they CARE that I have CF and that it's possible for me to be sick!??!

I hate my school. I really hate it. They are definitely getting a not so nice letter from my mom. I mean seriously. Do we have to have another docter tell them I have CF...? Do we need them to write ANOTHER note? Do they not understand that I can't just turn off feeling sick.
Me and my mother both said I would be going more..But I DID NOT choose to be ill!
You know guys, I have had some friends, and most of them have told me that I am soooooooo lucky because I have CF, so I can just go to the nurse and go home.
Hehe, I have actually thought about doin that, but it's like the boy who cried wolf. I have never done that..never will, but anymore it wouldn't matter if I did it or not.

I just needed to vent, I am just so angry about this. I am so stessed lately..and now this! I don't even know why I cried...


-Ali

[melissa2007]

I delt with the same problem, but sometimes although the teachers may seem mean they can be trying to push you like they did to me, pushing you to try and do the schooling.
At the time it seems mean but later you will be glad you got pushed a little,now im not saying your situation is the same as mine but there are alot of simularities.
If you ever google CF and read about it it says many times that excercise is VERY important,your teachers may have read this and feel that getting you active in gym is doing you good, and after running all our heart rates go up, if your heart was beating outrageousy above normal and you complained of a sore shoulder they may have felt you were having a heart attack, they just felt you had finished gym so a higher heart rate was normal.
Your teachers are just trying to push you to stay in school and get an education and may feel if they let you do as you please you would never come to school.
CF is hard, i understand, but we can't let it get the best of us, you got to fight, even if your not feeling your best go to school and make it through a day,each day is a victory, personally I find I recover better if I keep moving and going to school, when you sit at home you can feel sick much longer.
If you feel you can really not do gym then see if you can do other things,when i went through a bad spell I would rake the sand pits,gather the balls or put away equipment, ask your gym teacher if you can take it easy for a while, it will not be good if you miss the second half of school everyday because you over excercise in gym.
I don't think your teachers are out to get you or be mean,they are just trying to push you to do better,for some people this is the only way for them to deal with CF,because sometimes we need pushing.
remember there is always homeschool if you absolutely cannot bear school.
Things will be ok,just rmember everyday you finish a whole day of school is a victory,push yourself,you can do it if you really try.
Take care hun
melissa

[April]

That sounds very unfair & uncaring of them. My cousin's daughter had CF for 24 yrs then got a double lung transplant in 2000. Having new lungs meant that she no longer had CF. She did wonderfully well for about 5 yrs & is now on the transplant list again. I know during her school days she spent a lot of time absent & at least 6 mths per year in hospital. She's now 32 y/o.

[iwantmypup]

Hey,


Thanks Melissa. :) It's just so hard. And I can't stand people with snappy attitudes, lol. And I am doing my work...so it's not like I'm not doing anything. :(

April, I am really sorry to hear that. :( I hope she will be okay..:(

-Ali

[Bailey-lover]

Hey pup that is so stupid! Just like my school. What happen oneday was!

I came back from lunch and one of my really good friends johhny hes a guy and I love him and he loves me but where cousins! And we mean as friends Im there for him and hes there for me! Like oneday a guy tripped my over in libarry and I got carpet burn and johhny went and gave him a black eye! Not the best way to handle it but thats just him :p anyway we came back from lunch johhny was yelling at the principal! Saying I really fill sick like Im going to fait and want to go home! And this johhny lives next door to school and hes the type of person he would just tell the principal no get stuffed and leave! Anyway I get crabby because headed to the door and the principal full on pushed him backwards so I stepped in and said johnny are you ok The principal said got back to class! I said Im here from johnny he pushed me I yelled at him and said dont you touch me! Or johnny anyone way your not suppost to have fones at school but I always take mine for emergencys! And I rand johhnys parents they came in and took him home!


I hate getting in to fight with teachers but alot of them deserve, Im the type of person I told a relief teacher that Im gonna put him up for assult in front of the class! Because he pulled me off a computer chair!!!!!! I hate them teachers!

Sorry for stealing your thread :p but just saying lol!

Anyway sorry to here pup

[Bailey-lover]

That sounds very unfair & uncaring of them. My cousin's daughter had CF for 24 yrs then got a double lung transplant in 2000. Having new lungs meant that she no longer had CF. She did wonderfully well for about 5 yrs & is now on the transplant list again. I know during her school days she spent a lot of time absent & at least 6 mths per year in hospital. She's now 32 y/o.


Ouch,


sorry to hear that :(:(:(

[sheplovr]

Hey Ali Honey now your being outta line. Some schools do not have well trained staff to handle things like yours. I pray you will get better with a miracle daily sweetie.

We can stand and look from the outside honey, but nobody knows how you truly feel inside, never walking in your shoes a day. We cannot comdem you for being upset, now should any teachers. Your mom should write a note when you go back exactly what to do, where to reach her so this does not happen again.

Always remember all schools are alike, do not put down your school, your upset, take a deep breathe, count to ten and relax honey. Your going to be ok Ali. GOD takes care of our children, he is looking down on you so be a good girl.....we know you are just that....:)

[Mom to Lil Buddy]

I often did conferencing with teachers for students with physical limitations. Believe me, so often the teachers just don't have a clue, it is not that they are willfully seeming to be mean, it is just that they don't know. Have you, your Mom, and any other health professionals that you deal regularly with (PT, OT, home health nurse etc.) had a conference with your school? If not, ask to set one up, and as you have a health issue it most definitely should include the nurse. If you have had such a conference then it is time to have another one including that nurse. I know I put a couple of teacher's in tears when they realized how they were a part of the students problem, and not a part of the solution!

[Maltese_love]

And people ask kids why they don't like school. What a horrible thing to do! I am sorry it happened to you. Seriously next time, I would just keep going to the bathroom and calling from the cell phone. We aren't allowed to use Cellphones in school. I've called my mom plenty of times in the bathroom. ;)