A Utah nursing student fights to get proper accommodations for her disability

Nursing student Maria Thomson thought she would be OK going to class this one time without her service dog, Daisy.Thomson couldn’t afford another absence on her record, she said. Besides, her doctor said she would be safe attending without Daisy, a sheepadoodle who helps alert Thomson when she starts feeling the symptoms of her condition, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, which affects the autonomic nervous system.It had been a rough few weeks for Thomson, then a student