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Petition Letter: Dear Associate Dean,

I am Zhantao Bao, student number 20112086. It has truly been a rough year for me and it has been proven to be challenging for everyone, especially, us, the international students, to cope with this turbulent and uncertain period under Covid-19. For me personally, the circumstances turned out to be even more difficult.

Recently I was diagnosed to have?acute gastroenteritis and
Helicobacter pylori. They are a symptom of non-stop severe flatulence, stomachache, emesis, diarrhea. Because of this, I am hospitalized for a thorough treatment. It was my eager hope that I might be able to be released from hospital and return to home in early July, however, that hope is dashed since my condition has not improved enough but worsened. I won't be able to leave the hospital for at least ten more days. ?But I am feeling better now, with the aid of both western pharmacy and traditional Chinese medicine. I was strongly advised by my physician that as long as I stayed away from cold dishes and iced beverages, my conditions will soon be significantly improved. It was my plan to take three courses this summer, but I am afraid that now I am no longer well enough to take the third. I wholeheartedly wish that everything will be better before the fall semester. I didn??t even realize that I have missed the deadline to drop the summer courses until few days ago, because I was undergoing intense treatment, including transfusions, gastroscopy and injections, back in early this month. The course in which I would like to drop is WRIT120, since this course begun in early July, I was not able to study nor participate at all, I wasn't even able to access it on onQ, because I simply do not have the energy to do so and I didn't even have a chance pay the tuition fee for WRIT 120. Before my illness emerged, I was in WRIT125, I was able to follow the class in May and June, but, was forced to miss assignment 2, assignment 2 outline, assignment 4 and potentially, the approaching deadlines of assignment 3 (Which is a revision of assignment 2) and assignment 5. I have contacted my instructor, Miss Lori Vos, and informed her of my illness early this month and expressed my wish to return to this course as soon as possible. However, my conditions went worse, so I haven??t had the chance to reach out to her again. In our correspondences, She told me that she is happy to offer me an extension for my assignments, but she only can do so after I submit my appeal letter. I realize that the assignments and contents I missed are plenty. Now my illness has taken a change for the better and the course itself is an online course, making the full content accessible for me at any time, I am confident that an extension of two or three weeks would be sufficient for me to catch up with all the contents and finish all my missed assignments. I do wish to sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that my circumstances might cause. With your understanding and help, I shall, in the upcoming fall semester, put my academics back on track.

As for the supporting document, My physician, Doctor Li, has issued a description of my symptom. The document is hand-written, I??ve taken the liberty of using Netease Translator, to get a roughly accurate English translation. I will attach both the original document and its translation.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at any time
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to you for your understanding and help at this difficult hour.