Gobble!

Yesterday I finally got a break from school and from homework! I love thanksgiving! I got to eat dinner with my family and just relax. I had a nice 2 hour nap and saw movies. I actually kind of felt bad after because it was such a waste of time. But I am making up for it today. Already this morning I have completed my study of another module for dental hygiene, and as you can see I am finishing up my blogging for this semester. Oh man, it will be so nice to have this done. I think I kind of like this those. I like blogging when it isn't just venting my issues with clinic. Maybe is should blog every day. Then I could print it out every day and make a journal out of it. Well, maybe not every day. That would get kind of boring. Maybe just every clinic or whenever something exciting happens like thanksgiving, or whenever I just need to let some thoughts out. Last night I went and saw the movie new moon. It is the second movie in the twilight saga. I never read the book, but everyone is raving about the movie so I thought I would go see it. Wow, I felt like that movie was the story of my life. This girls true love had to leave her and while he was gone she started to hang out and fall in love with this other guy and found that this other guy eased the pain of her love being gone. Well, her honey comes back and it is difficult I'm sure to tell the other guy that all along she loved the first, but she tells him and he runs off. This is the story of my life because I miss my missionary Thomas quite a bit, but am found that my pain is eased when I hang out with this other guy. But in the end, I know I will choose my missionary. It has always been him. Anyway, that was interesting to make that connection. Well, that is it! I am done with officially with blogging until next semester. Hurray!

First Day of Break

This first day of thanksgiving break has not been a break at all, but this doesn't upset me in the least bit. I have been getting so much done today. All day I have been studying my dental hygiene modules and putting together my OHI Kit. It is coming along really good. I made a huge list of everything I needed to get done over the break and I've just been going through and what do you know, I'm almost done. Well, not quite. The dental hygiene modules will still take me a long time, but all the other little things are getting checked off my list which makes me feel really good. And yes, this is one of those things that I get to check off my list when I am done. I won't get to check it off until tomorrow though. This is blog number 24 and I need 25 in order to check it of my list of things to do. I'm getting pretty close though. This morning I got to go to the temple too and I already finished my scripture study, which is strange for this early in the day. Usually I have to save my study for late at night when I am done with everything else and I forgot to read earlier in the day. Can I just say that I got up at 6:30am! That is highly unusual for a day that I have the option of sleeping in. I'm feeling very proud of myself at the moment. It is kind of nice. I have a sense of satisfaction from the days accomplishments. Well, I've got one more entry for tomorrow and then I'm sorry to say (or not) that you won't be seeing another entry until school starts up again in January. I get a month off. Yahoo!

Nothing to Write about

I really have nothing to write about. I just have to get my 25 posts in. I guess I could say that I'm excited for the first semester to almost be over. I have a lot of studying to do for finals, but it isn't overly stressful. Today's dental hygiene class was nice! We had a short review and were out by 12pm! Usually we are out by 2pm, so this was a good day! I just spent the last hour trying to complete all of the end of semester course evaluations. Yuck! That took way too long. Why do they have to have two evaluations for every instructor...and why do they list some instructors more than once? What a waste of time. The only part I care to fill in is the comment section anyway. I kind of felt bad. I wanted to be helpful, but sometimes the truth hurts. I hope some of the comments I made weren't too personal. I just kind of let some of my frustrations out and hope that it will be of some use to the instructor who gets it. I hope they don't take offense. I'm just trying to be helpful. I mostly hope they can't tell that it is me that wrote it! I don't think they give them our names, but still I think the instructors could maybe tell by what I said who it was that said it, just because they know my style of speech and they know what most of my frustrations are. Well, to late to go back and change things. Wow, this blog turned out to be longer than expected. I just want to mention a couple of goals before I leave. My goal for next semester is to get frustrated less and have more of positive attitude. Okay, that is all for now. I will write something useless tomorrow and the day after that. I think this will be entry number 23, which means I only have two more to go. Hurray!

Real patient day

I had my first real patient day, so naturally it was a day of much learning! All I have seen in this clinic so far are 1b's. Well, today I got a little more than a 1b. I got a 2. Not that this is a big difference except when it comes to probing. I guess I was hitting calculus instead of bone because most of the readings I got were not quite as deep as the instructors. I guess that is why it was a good experience. I learned that there is such thing as something deeper than a 4, which thing I have never come across until today. I think things ran really smoothly. I was a little worried when it came to taking x-rays, since radiology seems to be my biggest frustration on Monday's, but things just went really smoothly. I am blessed for this! I feel like I know what I am doing for the first time. I felt kind of professional, although that is something I definitely need to work on. I think a goal I have for myself is being able to probe faster. I feel so slow and often times if I do more than one tooth I forget the number. I think it will be my new goal to work on remember numbers and probing a bit faster. All in all I think the day was a success. Now I can finally get some sleep rather than stay up all night going through every procedure in my head, haha. That will be nice!

Mock Day 2

Where to begin. How about this morning when I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I really have nothing to say other than I'm pretty sure I did everything wrong today. And the good news is, I get to learn from this experience and do things right when my real patient is here. I will probably have to re-due a PE for the first time and my chart, but at least I will learn how to do it this time. I am a little upset about the PE. I thought I new it and I have always been very successful with sealants. Things just went wrong this time and I couldn't think with the professor looking over my shoulder. At least they went wrong on my fake patient so I know what to do in the future. I'm really done with this blog. I am exhausted and mostly writing things mindlessly. That's all for today.

Patient Day

I expected today to be a really easy day with no frustrations. I planned on just showing up and falling asleep in the chair. Boy was I wrong. Well, for the most part my expectations met, but then the instructor got after me for not being a good patient. I guess I was talking to much, but I can't just keep quiet when I have a yucky taste in my mouth. I wanted to be helpful. If I'm pocking my patients gums or leaving junk in their mouth I would want them to tell me. So that was frustrating. Then I had to pass of my PE, which I also thought would be a breeze, but it turns out that some instructor didn't teach me everything I needed to know and there was one part of the PE I missed. I still passed, so that is good, but I still left frustrated and upset. Monday is just not my day. Good thing we only have a few of them left.

Wednesday's Clinic

Yep, I'm a day late again! There isn't really much tell to when it comes to clinic yesterday. It was really nice and laid back I thought. I had lots of time to pass off the needed PE's and also had lots of time to practice scaling. It was really quite a nice day. Clinic will never be the same again though, I'm sure. Monday I don't really even have clinic because I am just someone's patient. Then the next time times I get to be the operator. I'm really grateful we get to have a practice day before our first real patient. My goal is to read over the order of things before next week so that I will feel prepared for my first practice patient. That way things will hopefully run smoothly. That is all for now.

Sealants

Today was a crunch because my partner was gone and I was put in a group of three. Not a problem because we finished in time, I just felt a little rushed and maybe a little flustered. I'm feeling a little stressed right now, but I think that is normal for Monday. I'm usually feeling a lot better on Wednesday. I think I did pretty good on the sealants. Everything really went very smoothly. I just got in a little argument with the instructor on one of my PE's because she wasn't understanding something I was trying to explain to her. It happens sometimes. I'm a little frustrated that the instructors aren't all on the same page, but I think that is just something I'm going to have to get over. I just need to be happy with getting threes even though I know all the information. I just need to take a deep breath and get over myself. I think if I focus more on others I will be a lot less frustrated with my own life. Maybe I should make that a goal. Okay, here is my goal for future clinic days: I am committed to focusing more on the needs and concerns of others than on myself. There you go. That is all for today.