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@suecedar1028 I tend to get angry. So, I am and have been working on my MSW. I graduate in August. I enrolled before I got this brutal virus. For the last two years, I have had to do a field placement. I enrolled with the student's with disabilities organization at my University. This is an online program, so class is via Zoom. Field placement is not although there are remote positions. I have asked from the get go for a remote field placement due to feeling terrible most mornings. Did not happen. Then, my second semester of my clinical field placement that began last August, stopped. The agency was a non-profit. In December the Exec. Director resigned and it was discovered that thousands in grant money was missing...unaccounted for. So, in the middle of my clinical placement, I had no placement. My field coordinator and I finally found one in March...yes, almost 2 months into the Spring 2026 semester. So, summer school has started. I have to get 600 hours for this field placement. I do well to get 15 hours in a week. It is as if these people do not get it when I say, I feel terrible, and I am concerned. I have 130 hours to get before August 12. I know that doesn't sound like much, but it is almost 19-20 hours a week. I have been going in 2 days a week from 9-4. I have to get up at 5:00 to take the medicine that allows me to function. So, yesterday, I got really pissed off. I have made an appointment with my students with disabilities coordinator. I am not one to rock the boat, but I have come too far in this program to 1)Not be able to get the hours 2)Make myself even sicker trying to push to get the hours...3)Put up with people that need to know about this virus because it is not going anywhere anytime soon. I can empathize in a way, because I never knew what someone meant when they said, "I have chronic fatigue." I now know VERY WELL what that means. There is also no curriculum, I have seen, that addresses chronic illness. This is good, accredited University and it is a Masters of Social Work program. There is no excuse for teaching students, etc. how to help people with chronic illness, long COVID, MS, Cancer....whatever it is. I am on my soap box this morning. I woke up irritated and feel bad.

Okay. Now for gratitude. I have a place to live. I have food. I have clothes, a car, my dogs, my 2 cats and you people. I am still sober.

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@diverdown1 Gratitude is SO important and trust me when I tell you that I totally understand that it's difficult (some days impossible, to muster up!) I think that if we were making progress in finding answers and beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel, it would be at least somewhat easier for us. It's the not knowing that has me even more upset.
I am so sorry to hear that on top of a chronic illiness, you're having to deal with this red tape. I can't even begin to give advice on this, since my sitation (not my condition which is rather the same) is so different, but hats off to you for your determination to accomplish what you've been accomplishing with all you have going on. Feeling like I do, I couldnt imagine the additional frustration you must feel.
Hopefully a few others in this forum can weigh in.
In the meantime, lets just breath in our gratitude.