[pinksequins]

Kateee, here are a couple of other thoughts for your consideration. You may benefit from sessions post-class with a statistics TA. You might also benefit from some organization assistance since you seem to fall behind when you became ill.

I found the TAs to be enormously helpful with my calculus classes, 12 credits of which were at that time required at my university (and I was a liberal arts major!). A STEM student I was clearly not, and I didn't understand a single formula in the large lecture hall classes. The TAs took time and helped me understand (not simply memorize) formulae. On the exams, I was happily surprised when I recognized a fact pattern.