My life just took a dump.

[Doctor Woodrow]

Wells boys and girls, how do I begin . . .
Probably at the beginning. I started Chiropractic College at WSCC here in Portland Oregon in the Winter of 2008 (January), bought my first Monster (not my first bike), and found out my wife was pregnant. I got hit on the bike at 67 MPH three months later and basically walked away still in one piece. My knee swelled up, my hip swelled up, and I wa missing a tiny bit of skin off my posterior b/c I was wearing chaps and jeans, and not ridinng pants. I jumped right back into school two days later with no break, I was tough wasn't I? I didn't need to take time off. I was fine, right? WRONG. I couldn't participate in several classes b/c of pain with prolonged standing, didn't get help with classes b/c I could handle it myself if things were a bit tough right, WRONG AGAIN!

To cut a bit out, my grades fell two quarters in a row and I got dismissed from school. Got a job, worked hard, payed the bills, applied and got back in. Well things went along okay, not the best grades, but good enough to stay in school. Until this quarter. You see once you get dismissed and get back in, then you stay on academic probation FOREVER. Thats kinda why they call it permanent academic probation. Hmm, yeah so from the title of this thread you can probably guess that I got another dismissal letter in the mail today.

It is possible to get accepted back in again, and I would probably only have to re-do some of the classes that I really scrtewed up on, but I don't really know what to do.

I guess I shouldn't sign off as The Doc anymore, so well I guess this will do.

"Me" =

[MendoDave]

Well sometimes life has its ups and downs. I wont bore you with all of the adversities life has dealt me. Suffice it to say I'm not as lucky as some, but I'm more fortunate than many others. Sounds like its the same with you.

If you have a roof and food on the table your not doing so bad. I just looked a guy in the face the other day that had lost everything and was now living in an alley here in the snow country. I saw me in that guys face and I hope I don't ever become him.

[scott_araujo]

Doc, all is not lost.  I went to WSCC as a patient for many years when I first moved to Portland.  I have two friends who graduated from there.  One is my current chiropractor and another taught there before moving and starting his own practice.  Suffice it to say it's a good school.  And they want you to graduate, dropouts look bad for them.

Do you still really want to be a chiropractor?  If the answer is yes talk to the school, explain the problems you've been facing and that you still want to finish the program.  Since you were doing well when you started it sounds like you have the aptitude and just lack the time.  Working and family are taking lots of your time right now and you can only throttle those back so much BUT you can go to school part time, maybe even just one class at a time.  It will take longer to get where you want to be but you can get there.  In the last 7 or 8 years I've been unemployed many times, laid off several times, quit a few terrible jobs, was making not much more than minimum wage for a while, went back to school, been deathly ill, etc.  I just kept plugging away, trying new jobs, looking for the next better opportunity, and now I've finally found a job at a decent company that pays well working with good people.  Just keep taking the next step and sooner or later you'll get there.  If you take a misstep, regroup and try something else.  It may not be easy but it beats the feeling of accepting a fate you don't feel is yours.

Scott