I’ll let you fill in the blank for this one on your own, lest I cloud your judgment.

Last week, massive thunderstorms rolled in.  Remember, I discussed this last week: one girl cried.  Anyway.  Three students did not show on that day.  The next day, one asked if class was canceled.  I said no.  She said “Shit”.  The second girl emailed me – she’s in a wheelchair, and that’s a whole other story.  The third didn’t say anything.

Until Tuesday.

Are you ready?

She came up to me after class and said she needed to talk to me about the speech she missed.  Then she said “It’s kind of personal, I don’t want to say it with everyone here.”  Fine.  So we wait, and then in a hushed voice, she tells me she’s been having a lot of medical issues lately, including an overactive thyroid, which is why she looks like someone needs to force feed her.  She is quite skinny.  Not sure where this was going yet, I was about to tell her that if she had a doctor’s note, she’d be fine, but she started telling me that because of this, she’s dealing with some nasty problems, including one that caused her to miss class that day.

Are you sure you’re ready?

She missed class because her uterus is falling out.

I was torn…part of me wanted to hug her (because I do know that that is medically possible to happen to a woman) and part of me wanted to burst out laughing because my student just told me that she missed a speech because her uterus was falling out.

She did offer to share details if I wanted.  Needless to say, I declined.

Seriously.  Couldn’t make this up if I tried.