Thursday Jan. 7, 2010

Today is the first day back at the VA after our Christmas break. I saw a class five pt. The pt that I saw had good OH and had received past head and neck radiation due to oral cancer. This was pretty interesting. I'm glad to start our last semester even though it will be stressful with boards and all.

Tuesday Jan. 5,2010

Today went well. I saw four patients and was able to complete my clinic simulation day. I'm glad to have finished one of the projects due for this semester already. The day went really fast and I was busy the whole time. I also was able to take 3 sets of BW today. Yeah its the last semester of my dental hygiene experience.

Thursday Dec. 3,2009

Today is the last day of clinic. This was a good day. I was able to do 2 full mouths, that means that I'm half way done with my PA's. I feel great. I'm so glad that I've made it this far and only have 1 semester to go. I saw my brother today. Hopefully, I didn't hurt him to bad. It is so nice that all of my family supports me so much with meeting my requirements. I hop that next semester goes this well especially with boards.

Thursday November 19,2009

Today we had a lab in the morning. We learned about emergency preparedness, veloscope, and wheelchair transfer. I felt like I learned alot today. It was amazing how many people could move others from one chair to another. I feel like it is always good to refresh ourselves on emergency preparedness. In the afternoon I saw a girl that was referred from my sister in law. My sister in law said that she had not had a cleaning for a long time. I was glad that she was a class 1B for her,but I was hoping for a board patient or something that I could use for next semester. She was a nice girl and I was glad that I could help her.

Tuesday Novemeber 17,2009

On this day, I was at the VA hospital for my last day this semester. I was able to finish my periomedicament PE. It was nice to finally place Arestin. I have seen many hygienists place arestin. I felt like it was pretty easy. My patient at the VA was a Class three exam. I am glad that I finished my exams today. That takes a lot of stress off.

Thursday Nov. 12

Today was a good day. I finished my class three exam and saw my kids. I was a little nervous to give LA on my patient with trigeminal neuralgia, but all went well. I didn't have any errors on the exam. In the afternoon I saw my kids. It is always fun but hard to treat your own children. They did good and I was glad to get my 1A requirements finished.

Thursday Nov. 5 2009

Today in clinic, I saw to patients that were class five's. They were pretty easy patients to treat. I counted up my quads for the semester and I have 86 so far. I still have 3 clinic days at WSU and 1 day at the VA. Hopefully I will be able to finish all of my requirements before the semester ends. I just want to take a second and say how grateful I am to have this opportunity to be apart of the dental hygiene program even though it has been stressful at times. I also feel grateful for a wonderful family that has supported me through the program. I feel lucky to have such a wonderful husband and 3 beautiful girls that help me through these day's each week. I don't know if I could accomplish all of this without the support from everyone that I know and love. Thanks everyone for helping me stick with everything:) Almost only one semester to go. Yeah!