Thanks for your reply, Wing.

At my university, any make-up exams have to be approved by the Dean. Usually I try to avoid him and talk to my professors directly, who have always been kind and very accomodating. However, sometimes I have no option but to talk to my dean. My friends say that he is a nice man, but he has always been difficult toward me, perhaps because of my mental health issues. A part of me wonders if all of this is part of the discrimination that those of us with MI face.

Generally, I provide non-specific notes when I am in the hospital. However, since the school year ended on Friday, by the time I left the university's inpatient services, its office was closed and nobody provided me a note. I don't even know which physician attended to me, because I was in such bad shape.

I don't know why he wants my permission to speak to the physician. Why do you think that I shouldn't give him permission? Right now, I'm between a rock and a hard place. I feel that I have no option but to give him permission. If that's what is necessary for me to take the exam, I will, since I have nothing to hide. My dean knows about my MI and health issues, since he required documentation from me when I had to take a year off from college.

If you or anyone else has suggestions, I'd love to hear. My Dean has not said anything about whether I will be allowed to take the make-up exam. Just that he wants to speak to my physician first, and that the frequency of my illnesses was "unusual".

Really, I am so proud of having gotten through this year without missing any deadlines, requiring any extensions, or taking any make-up exams! Yes, my grades haven't been great, but I'm pulling through and I'm trying my best. My dean should be looking that *that* instead of bringing up my old records (prior to my BP diagnosis and treatment).