10-28-10

I'm not going to write much because I think I'm coming down with something and my head kind of hurts. I still have a couple more PE's left. I need to do one more 1a and 4 quads of a class 3 exam. I'm getting nervous because it is the end of the year, but I'm not quite freaking out yet. I think I'll make all of my requirements okay. We'll see. Today went smooth. I usually write what I need to work on in my notebook, so I'm not even going to waste my time here right now.

I haven't been very good the last couple of clinics with writing in the blog. I still don't know how to respond to others blogs either, but the instructors haven't really told us how, so I'm kind of not worried about it. Clinic has been good for the most part and I feel like I was improving a lot to begin with, but when the instructors switched pods I feel like I haven't learned as much. The one over our pod now doesn't come around to help us with technique and she takes her sweet time coming over if we need a scale check or something. It is kind of frustrating, but I'm learning to deal with it. In a way it is making me be faster because I know I won't have as much time to get the patient out because we have to wait longer for the instructor. I just wish someone would come over every once in a while to check up on my skills. School will come to an end quicker than we know and I want to know what I can do to improve know so I don't look like an idiot when I get out into private practice. I've had pretty good luck so far with finding the right patients with good classifications, but as school is rolling on I'm getting worried about finding the right patients to meet requirements and I haven't passed off nearly enough PE's. I feel like there is just no time for that. I feel like there isn't time to prepare because who knows when the perfect patient will walk in that is good for a certain PE. I just have to be ready on the spot. Anyway, I'm kind of getting nervous about requirements, but what good is life without a little stress. How boring would it be to get to heaven and talk to people who went through hard things and tell them that life was easy. I'm grateful for my challenges. They help me to learn and to grow. I just hope that I can live up to the challenge and push myself so that in the end I come out successful.