No Excuses

This is typically the beginning of a rough time of year for Grace, I think it starts with all the dirt in the air from the harvests and then the weather begins to change. She had back surgery 3 years ago and has endured some level of pain most days since. It seems worse some times than others.
 She had stayed home Monday and Tuesday, in bed resting her back. You wouldn't think sitting all day would wear a person out, but some days it's just more than she can put up with. I figure a few days in bed won't hurt her.
She does seem to play catch up a lot of the time at school, but she doesn't use her condition as an excuse to get out of the work. She does throw out the occasional joke about being uniquely abled.  Last week she was calling her biology teacher over to her seat to ask a question, now it's a well known fact that he can get side tracked on the way to helping a student, she jokingly told him "Run! Run for those that can't." He got a kick out of her and reminded her that he can't run either, too much arthritis and he's waiting for a hip replacement.
I'm grateful for understanding teachers and the fact that my daughter doesn't expect to get a free pass on school work. She isn't a perfect angel about it, she complains about the amount of homework like the rest of the students, but she trudges through.