mock board miracle

Last week was mock boards. At 3pm the day before, I was crying to my husband because i still didn't bave a pt. By about 5pm, a fellow classmate called to say that someone was coming in at 8am to be my pt. I was relaxed and happy. I got to clinic the next morning a tad late and felt super unorganized. By 8:15am, that pt still hadn't shown up. I was panicking inside. Prof Alexander said to start calling people to be my pt in the afternoon. As i went to the locker room, i could feel tears starting. Luckily, Camille came up and told me to find a pt in the foyer of Midtown. I was doubtful but I went out and told the three men there my story. The 26yr old said that he could stay as long as i took a pano on him. I gladly agreed and we got started... I sat him in the chair and realized with only being in the mouth for about 20sec that this kid was going to have plenty of calculus for me to remove and might even qualify for Boards!!!! I rushed him to be checked and he QUALIFIED!! everyone was amazed.. The calculus seemed to come off with such ease-we were chatting and laughing together and pretty soon i was finished and had 30 more min to go. I probed and then sent him on to be checked again.. oops.. i didn't do any of the paper work!! I only missed 3places of cal. and with having no xrays and no probe depths i felt good about that. I got my score back.. 72/100 wow.. that was exciting to know even when i didn't do the paper work. that was a great experience and i felt that this pt was a miracle.. ps.. the pano turned out great too.

Extra VA day

Prof Hanson was feeling sorry for me and, with some luck, got me in for an additional day at the VA. I was sosososo grateful to have someone else on my side. I was able to get so much accomplished too!! The morning consisted of 2quads of a 2 and 2quads of a 3.. and I got to do Local Anesthetic on both the UR and UL.. then the afternoon was pleasant Mr. Hogge with 3 quads of 3 with 11 injections!!! what a day.. I was so happy and grateful for prof hanson and besides that, she was an absolute delight to talk to at lunch. She made the whole experience positive, open for learning and organized.

my professor is worried

I just had my semi semester interview with my professor and she is worried about me. I haven't seen very many pts with perio and we are running out of time. I am super excited about my two pts today. both of them have perio to some extent and i am grateful. My after noon pt was 2/3 and I got to use local anesthetic on her ur quad. It made me super nervous but with my prof's help i got through. I think i was a little shaky. She was super numb though.. so that felt good..