An Interesting Week

This week started out a little bizarre.  Early Sunday morning I had a grand mal seizure that landed me in the ER for about 4 hours.  I got a new cell phone on Saturday and obviously spent too much time playing it through out the day.  Just second after turning off the light at 12:15 Sunday morning I went into my seizure.  I have been fine since except for my short term memory.  I still had to take the Process of Care exam on Tuesday.  I was ever so grateful that I had already taken the national board.  I don't think I remember anything that I studied for that exam.  When I entered the testing center on Tuesday, I put my license in my right back pocket of my jeans.  When I left the testing center I don't remember what I did with my license.  It may have fallen out of my pocket for all I know.  But it is officially gone.  I called the testing center and they don't have it.  I didn't even realize it was gone until the next day buying tickets to a movie.  So, I will be going to the DLD tomorrow to get a new drivers license.

This week was also our third and final mock board.  I was a little nervous because it has been more than a week since I have scaled and I had a seizure during that time.  I just prayed that I remembered what I was doing.  I was unable to confirm my patient.  She is a Midtown patient and speaks mostly Spanish.  I left her a message, but she never returned my call.  Thank heaven she was in the afternoon, because that gave me the opportunity to talk to Midtown and she had been in the day before and remembered that she was coming in to see me.  WaHoo!

She showed up and I was able to convince her to let me get her numb.  I was so thankful!  She was wonderful to work on.  I felt like things were going really well.  Then I hear Michelle, right across from me say, "I am going to let you have a little break and then I will check again."  Perfect!  I will do the same.  I scaled a little longer, then allowed my fingers to have a break.  When I got back in her mouth, I found a huge chunk of calculus that I hadn't felt before.  I was so glad for Michelle's reminder to let my hands have a break.  I would have missed an area otherwise.  I had a very good mockboard experience.  I only missed one probe depth.  It made me realize that I need to make sure my angulation on my probe isn't too shallow, which can lead to a false reading.  I will do better next time.  But I got a 98.75%!  Can't complain about that!

Also, Mr. Salomon finally got a hold of my board patient.  He scheduled her for next Thursday so that I can clean the right half of her mouth.  I already had a patient scheduled there, but this woman is my priority until after boards.  I only have two clinic days before board week, and I want to see her so that I can confirm my Board time with her and get her permission ahead of time to get her numb.  Here's to hoping that I pass my local anesthesia board so that I can get her numb!