Course Withdrawals

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Okay so I have a total of "31" course withdrawals. Here's the thing, 21 of them were due to the fact that between 2007-2008 my grandfather took a turn for the worse with his health. I decided to take off and help my family out since my mom was working and my grandmother couldn't handle it all herself. He already had two myocardial infarctions, stent/angioplasty placement...in 2003 he had an ICD implanted since his heart function was weakening....around 2007-2008 is when his Congestive Heart Failure took a turn for the worst. His heart function declined from 30% to 15% and that coupled with bouts of aspiration pneumonia did him in. He died because his heart was too weak to pump the vancomyocin through his system to defeat the pneumonia. In addition to all that he had diabetes. In the last year of his life (died in 2009), he even developed dementia. It was rough. I made trips to the pharmacist, help take his blood sugar/give him his novolog, watched him(especially during sundowner syndrome episodes), give drugs like coumadin, lasix etc. I wanted to be there for him because he was like my father. My biological father was not present in my life. I view this experience as one that matured me as an individual. The other withdrawals were due to the fact that I did not need those courses as electives or that I made "life decisions". For instance I was accepted into my school's MS in Economics program but quickly found out that it wasn't for me. I even had a graduate assistantship and gave up all that free money. Quickly after I decided that enough was enough and that I wanted to see if medicine was for me....

I know this looks bad, but this was my life. Everytime I thought I could take classes that semester, I ended up withdrawing from all of them to help out my family.

 

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Okay so I have a total of "31" course withdrawals. Here's the thing, 21 of them were due to the fact that between 2007-2008 my grandfather took a turn for the worse with his health. I decided to take off and help my family out since my mom was working and my grandmother couldn't handle it all herself. He already had two myocardial infarctions, stent/angioplasty placement...in 2003 he had an ICD implanted since his heart function was weakening....around 2007-2008 is when his Congestive Heart Failure took a turn for the worst. His heart function declined from 30% to 15% and that coupled with bouts of aspiration pneumonia did him in. He died because his heart was too weak to pump the vancomyocin through his system to defeat the pneumonia. In addition to all that he had diabetes. In the last year of his life (died in 2009), he even developed dementia. It was rough. I made trips to the pharmacist, help take his blood sugar/give him his novolog, watched him(especially during sundowner syndrome episodes), give drugs like coumadin, lasix etc. I wanted to be there for him because he was like my father. My biological father was not present in my life. I view this experience as one that matured me as an individual. The other withdrawals were due to the fact that I did not need those courses as electives or that I made "life decisions". For instance I was accepted into my school's MS in Economics program but quickly found out that it wasn't for me. I even had a graduate assistantship and gave up all that free money. Quickly after I decided that enough was enough and that I wanted to see if medicine was for me....

I know this looks bad, but this was my life. Everytime I thought I could take classes that semester, I ended up withdrawing from all of them to help out my family.

If you can explain your reasons for the withdrawals just like you did right now then you will be fine.

If you withdrew because you were about to fail or just no reason then that's a different scenario