First Patient!!

From start to finish I had my very first patient. Daniel came in to be my 'victim' and I was really grateful. The night before, he told me that he had been tested and had higher than normal blood pressure. Because of that, I ended up staying up all night thinking about it. I didn't sleep so we got up super early, ate and were at the clinic by 7:40am. I wanted to be sure to be ready. By 8:00am we started and my temperature had risen. I was moving as fast as I could and thinking of everything to keep myself in the green. I didn't want to mess up anything. My OD check went so well!! I was really impressed by that and the x-rays came out pretty much awesome. We finished OHI (I need to work on presentation of results to patients) and then barely started scaling (like one surface of one tooth) and the TA said we needed to finish up and walk our patient out. I was the first one done and out of there and I was excited to see how well everything flowed. Prof. Hemsley seemed pretty impressed with my performance too.. that made me feel like a million bucks! I just can't believe that we will be able to do so much in much less time!