Mom

My mom was my patient today. That was fun for her and I to see my improvement from the last time she came in. She was my first official patient. And I was slow and not very confident. Well today she came in and I was able to do her whole OD and cleaning in around 30 minutes, which was a vast improvement from two full days of the first time. So that was fun. I was also able to pass off a few needed PE's on my mom, so I am glad she was willing to do that for me. It was a good day. And life is good!

SERIOUSLY...

All I want to do is get healthy and lose some weight... therefore I workout! Well this morning I was working out and lucky me... sprained my ankle! BAD!!! The pain was incredible... I have never felt that sort of pain ever before... and I have had TWO children!!! Lol. This was not a great way to start out the day... especially since I had my Process of Care Exam (Board #2) scheduled. So I did my best to shower and get myself ready to take the exam. Luckily my sister had the day off, so she was able to drive me to the exam and help me into the building, and then drive me home. I had no time to be nervous today for this exam... my mind was else where. I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. If I do not pass... I have a good excuse, RIGHT?? Anyway... only time will tell. Even though I can't walk and my foot hurts like HELL, life is still good! :)

MockBoard #3

Well girls.... I FINALLY PASSED a mockboard! Today was a good day! It was nice to know that I can actually pass one of these exams, now lets just hope I can do even better on the real board! I also found out that I passed my FIRST board exam! LA written! I was so worried about the results of this exam... Hardest exam I have EVER taken! But the board Gods were kind to me and I passed! Wahooo!!! Life is good and getting a bit stressful! :)

Happy Love Day

I really am not a HUGE fan of Valentine's day! Never have been. But Happy Love day to all my girls! I love you all!!! Today I did some screenings, in hopes of finding a board/mockboard patient! I did find a mockboard... but she did not qualify for real boards! But glad to have a mockboard. I am going to PASS this one! I hope anyway! I need the confidence going into the real one here in a couple weeks! This patient is a class II and NOT going to be as hard as my past 2 mockboard patients!!! This is good news! So I am happy and looking forward to next week, gonna rock this one! Life is good! :)

LA MOCKBOARD

Well today was our first and only LA mockboard. I was a little nervous... but ready to pass a mockboard. I proceeded with my IA... got to site of deposition, aspirated, and got my FIRST positive aspiration! Awesome! So that kind of threw me for a loop, but I went with it, did what I thought was correct and moved on to the PSA. Site of penetration... I see... I see... proceed, and then I hit BONE! Seriously??? So needless to say, everything that could go wrong did. I finished and was unsure if I passed or not. After everyone was complete, Alexander and Naylor call me over... I sit down, look at the paper and I PASSED both of them!!! I was shocked! They said I handled both situations perfectly! Today was a gooooood day girls! Life is good, I passed a mockboard! :)

Ryker

Today in clinic this morning I saw a Class III. Which I was happy about! I really hope I will get all the class III's needed to graduate! Then this afternoon I had my son Ryker come in! I was in desperate need in passing off some PE's, plus my afternoon patient had cancelled... so seeing him was a last minute decision, and it worked out because he got out of school early today! I was able to pass off the diagnodent PE (by the way I have set that damn thing up I believe 4 times to use it, and have never been able to for a variety of reasons) VERY glad to have that PE done. Kelsey didn't have an afternoon patient either, so I told her we could both pass off the Air/Powder polish on Ryker! Lucky him! I did bribe him... told him I would take him to buy a toy, if he was really good, didn't complain, and held really still. So Kelsey and I both did air/powder polish and sealants on him! It was nice to get those PE's out the way too! Ryker was a really good patient, and showed amazing patience as we had a very LONG pod wrap! :)
Life is good!!!

LA Written Board Exam

Well today was HELL!!! I took my first board exam! I cannot believe how nervous I was! I was seriously about to have an anxiety attack before I went in there. I went to the bathroom, and as I was washing my hands, I noticed that my whole chest and neck was flushed... oh boy!
I start taking the exam and honestly there were questions that were fairly straight forward and easy... then there were other questions that were just off the wall hard! I feel like this exam was an out of body experience! The hour went by SOOOOO fast, I used up every last second! As soon as I was done... I just sat there and thought... "What in the HELL just happened??" I am so glad it is over... however I have NO CLUE where I stand or how I did...
Now I get to just worry and wait! One board down... four more to go! Life is good. :)