Really hard week... (and... advice?)

[Jengerbread88]

Some of you might have seen it on facebook, but it's been kind of a rough week for me regarding family.

Three days ago, my Aunt passed away of ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease). She had been fighting the illness for over two years.

Last night around 9pm, I got another phone call, saying my other Aunt (both of them my grandmother's sister) had passed away. She was diagnosed with lung cancer only one short month ago, and rapidly got worse.

Both of them are very close to me, and of course, both of their funerals are this week. This week also happens to be midterms. All of my professors have said they will work with me, except for two- one will not return my emails, and the other said that she will allow me to make up the work, but if I miss her class again, she will automatically fail me. It really seems ridiculous to me that she would fail me for missing her class again (I missed once due to health issues- my doctor put me on mandatory rest because I was having contractions, and I explained that situation). So, if I were to miss the class for the funeral, and miss once more for ANY reason (even if I'm in the hospital), I will fail. Her class is ridiculous- a complete and utter joke. On the first day of class, she announced "So this is sensory language and culture. I don't really understand what sensory language is, or what this class is really about, but I'm just going to give it my best guess and teach you some fun stuff. I hope it fits into the subject matter." (This isn't really acceptable for a professor at all- but it REALLY doesn't help that she's been teaching the course for over three terms now). Our assignments include making fairy tale stories out of construction paper, and leading each other around with blindfolds. But I'll FAIL and have to re-take it if I miss another class after this funeral.

I'd ordinarily risk it, because I don't miss many classes anyway. But my fear is, being pregnant, in the past two months I've been hospitalized a few times. I can't miss this funeral, but... I don't know what else to do?

Because of the days and times the funerals are, there's no way for me to get back for that class (it's right DURING one of them). Honestly, I could make it to my Wednesday class, but why drive to Springfield, drive back, drive down again, and drive back, when I really just want to be with my family right now, not in a car shuttling between a funeral and class, 3 hours apart?

What would you do, in regards to the class situation?