Hi,
I posted some time back about being forced to have treatments at college against my will. The college made it clear to me that their is no option to say no for anything unless there is a doctors note to say why I can’t have a treatment done. One of those is electrotherapy which interferes with a nerve condition I have which is included in my application and the other is waxing which causes me a lot of pain and was something I had never opted for before I started this course. I participated in everything else and showed willingness to allow people to practice on me during the class.
To cut a long story short I have had quite a lot of trouble with not being able to accept certain treatments being done on my body and the doctor has been a bit astonished as to why my saying no is not enough in this capacity. The college will not relent and say that to learn the treatments I have to receive them all myself this includes intimate waxing also by others in the classroom.
Can any one point me in the right direction of what to do as the situation has escalated now to involve the Dean of the college who wants a meeting with me to discuss my unwillingness to have certain things done to me. I am at breaking point and ready to leave the college now because I have never come against this and don’t know how to explain that these things cause me pain their response is that pain is part of it and everyone experiences it. I have idiopathic torsion dystonia and it does make pain worse. I also suffer from painful cysts which they want a doctors line to prove I have these even though they have physically seen them. I was called a wimp in the classroom by my tutor when my legs were bleeding after first time ever waxing at 34 and done my a student who ripped the strip the wrong way despite the fact I allowed them to do it to please the tutor and also draw less attention to myself. It’s been a horrible set of events and I have tried to stay upbeat as I love learning but I just can’t stay at the college anymore when this is the mentality. I understand fully that everyone has to participate but even I can see that if something causes a person discomfort or they don’t wish to be used as a model they should be allowed to say no to this as no one is going to be there when something goes wrong. I’ve worked as a support worker all of my days and never once have I been in a setting where we were told to experience the service users pain in order to know how to care for them.
Am I better to leave the course? I have no issues at all performing all of the treatments and I’m doing well on the course work this is the only hurdle I am facing.
Thanks for reading.
I posted some time back about being forced to have treatments at college against my will. The college made it clear to me that their is no option to say no for anything unless there is a doctors note to say why I can’t have a treatment done. One of those is electrotherapy which interferes with a nerve condition I have which is included in my application and the other is waxing which causes me a lot of pain and was something I had never opted for before I started this course. I participated in everything else and showed willingness to allow people to practice on me during the class.
To cut a long story short I have had quite a lot of trouble with not being able to accept certain treatments being done on my body and the doctor has been a bit astonished as to why my saying no is not enough in this capacity. The college will not relent and say that to learn the treatments I have to receive them all myself this includes intimate waxing also by others in the classroom.
Can any one point me in the right direction of what to do as the situation has escalated now to involve the Dean of the college who wants a meeting with me to discuss my unwillingness to have certain things done to me. I am at breaking point and ready to leave the college now because I have never come against this and don’t know how to explain that these things cause me pain their response is that pain is part of it and everyone experiences it. I have idiopathic torsion dystonia and it does make pain worse. I also suffer from painful cysts which they want a doctors line to prove I have these even though they have physically seen them. I was called a wimp in the classroom by my tutor when my legs were bleeding after first time ever waxing at 34 and done my a student who ripped the strip the wrong way despite the fact I allowed them to do it to please the tutor and also draw less attention to myself. It’s been a horrible set of events and I have tried to stay upbeat as I love learning but I just can’t stay at the college anymore when this is the mentality. I understand fully that everyone has to participate but even I can see that if something causes a person discomfort or they don’t wish to be used as a model they should be allowed to say no to this as no one is going to be there when something goes wrong. I’ve worked as a support worker all of my days and never once have I been in a setting where we were told to experience the service users pain in order to know how to care for them.
Am I better to leave the course? I have no issues at all performing all of the treatments and I’m doing well on the course work this is the only hurdle I am facing.
Thanks for reading.