all done!

By the end of today I will be finished with everything and ready for graduation!!!! I am so excited the only thing that could make this day better would be to get my results back from wreb. If I don't get those back in time to sign up for Idaho if I fail I might have a permanent mental breakdown! sarah

last weber day!

Oh my my! I can not believe that I don't have to come to clinic anymore. It is the wierdest feeling. I am so ready to leave but I kinda feel like I belong here. Real world here I come! If I can't find a job I will be the homeless bum on the side of the road... please feed me.

class IV

remember that class four I said I needed... well this afternoon my patient didn't come and i called a guy to come in and he had 6 teeth and was a class IV! How perfect is that! requirements are complete!! it feels so good to be done! next weeks clinic is going to be bliss!... unless I find out I have to retake my wreb clinical exam...

lots of x-rays!

today is a day dedicated to catching up on PA's. I took 16 on my mother and I am taking a pano on my aunt. I do not have an afternoon pt... I really hope that my pt next week will be 1 quad of a four!! That is the only requirement that I have left!

weeeeeeee!

On the downward slope! I don't think that it could be going any slower!! The days feel like weeks! I didn't have a patient for the morning part of clinic and lunch felt like an eternity. hopefully I passed my WREB exam... i feel good some days and awful others. it really could go either way. if I do pass you had better bet that will be a post on this blog!

VA CA

today I was CA at the VA and it went so well! the patients were particularlly entertaining and we finished an hour and a half early! I could ask for a better day! and it is showing that as clinicians we are able to be quicker when we are pushed to go faster. We had a code word... Pickles if anyone was taking too long.

friday clinic

Friday clinic is the worst! the day has seemed to drag on for so long. My afternoon patient was the patient I used for boards and I had Prof Alexander check and she felt 3 spots that I missed. yikes! I really am so scared that I am not going to pass! my only hope is that the examiners fell asleep while checking my patient and woke up thinking there was nothing wrong. ahhhhh!!!! I can not afford another $1000

lagging day

I swear today feels like a million days! I don't feel well and I am getting sick and tired of being worried about ridiculous things all the time. I am just not going to worry about it. If i don't pass an exam then I will worry. I am seriously just burned out! hopefully a weekend off will help me change my attitude.

last the worst!

mockboards are officially over for the rest of my life! I did not however end on a good note. I passed but it was my lowest mockboard score of the three. There was some TENACIOUS calculus that I couldn't budge. I really hope that the pt that I have coming to real boards is not that tenacious. Another day down!

its happening!!

I found my board patient today! She is an Angel!!! and she is perfect! I just really am so excited I have no words to say just how relieved I am! I did nothing else of importance today but I don't really even mind, I found a board patient.

all 15 yr olds are not created equal!

so I had a 15 year old coming today. I thought he would just be an easy 1B and it would be a nice day. No!! his tissues were the most swollen I have ever seen on the lower anteriors and he had black calculus on all sufaces of most teeth. I had to end up getting him numb. I hate when I have to give an injection when I wan't plannign on it because it makes me all nervous and flustered. one day I will be able to give a good solid injection... hopefully before WREB :S

mockboard #2

holy moly! I passed! I am so excited! It really helped that I had a fantastic patient. I can not wait until real boards are over and I can relax for two seconds. I really do feel like I am on the verge of a heart attack ALL THE TIME! one day... one day...

55 minutes

I am so excited because today I had a patient the only had an hour to be here and I got him in and out in 55 minutes! That is really great for me! I am just so glad to get the patients that I get! I always get the nicest ones! For a morning that I woke up dreading the day, it turned out great.

beginning of the end!

So this is the 2nd clinic of the final semester. I started out with 8 quads of a 3 and 2 quads of a 4! not bad eh? I am panicing about mockboards though. I don't have a patient and I might has to have an extremely hard one! yikes! anyway I feel like I am starting to get back in the swing of things, hopefully I'll just polish up my scaling skills and be ready to graduate!