Injections!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Friday we got to give our first 4 injections! I was so excited, and kind of nervous. The weird thing was, when I got into the clinic I wasn't nervous anymore. I would say I was cautious though because I didn't want to hurt Meagan any more than I had to. I wanted to make sure I did it right, and I think it went really well. Meagan was a great partner and she did a really good job! As soon as I was done, I wanted to give all the injections one more time so I could make sure I remembered everything. I guess I'll have to wait until next week.

Confidence and Humility :)

Today was soooo good! This morning started out great! I did my first class 3 exam and one quad was even a class 4...and I finished everything with no mistakes! I was soooo happy! Then, to top it off, I found a great mock board patient this afternoon! Life couldn't be getting any better at that point. I kind of ran out of time after I got everything figured out with my patient for the mock board day, so I only had a little while to try to do one quad. Well, after a wonderful morning I thought of course that quad would go great. It was definitely a class 4 quad. (Calculus and deep pockets gallor.) I new I didn't feel real great when I called for my scale check, but I was out of time so I figured I had to. Let's just say it didn't turn out as great as it did earlier. Oh well...I'm really happy with how things went today. I passed off a PE too...finally!

No Show :(

Well...my pt. didn't show up...there were actually four pts. who didn't show up this afternoon. Too bad for us. I have now had one pt. either not show up or cancle late the night before every week this semester. I really hope this doesn't keep happening.

Good Morning

This morning went really well. I finished my pt, which was good, but I missed a few spots I wish I hadn't. It's always nice to finish someone in one day though. Right now I'm just waiting for my afternoon pt. I really hope she shows up. If not, I guess I'll try calling some other people. I'll cross my fingers!

Good and Bad

Clinic last Tuesday was a mix of good and bad. The morning went great and I finished my patient. Everything seemed to go really smooth. Then the afternoon hit...I didn't even get to scaling my pt's. teeth. The HHX took me forever because there was so much to look up and we couldn't find one of the medications. There was just a lot of charting to do overall. I did take 3 PAs along with 4BWX so that was good. I was just frustrated that I didn't get any scaling done. Oh well. At least when I do finish up my pt. I'll get 3 quads of a 3 and 1 quad of a 4! Yea!

1st week of clinic and VA

My first week of clinic and the VA went really well! One of my clinic patients canceled the night before but luckily my dad was able to come in. I loved having him there! It was soooo much fun. I feel like things are coming back really fast. I was a little nervous at first, but not too bad. Things went great with all 4 of my patients this week! If every week is as good as this one was that would be great, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of challenges up ahead. It's nice to start out with a good week though!