It's all a blur

I have been struggling to keep my days separate.  I keep forgetting to blog about what I have been doing.  I only hope that by the end of the semester that I have enough blog posts to get the grade.  My days are really blurring together.  I can't believe that we are halfway through our 10th week of class.  I am almost finished with my first semester.  I have heard that this time flies.  I am grateful that it is.  I am really enjoying my education, but I can't wait to be done with school and have this education thing behind me.  I am excited to feel comfortable with what I am going to do for the rest of my life.  Also, the work load will be so much nicer.  Right now my "work" comes home with me, whereas when I am working as a hygienist, work stays at work.  Monday, October 25th, we just had a practice day.  We had to pass off our Oral Hygiene Instruction PE and the Intraoral Camera PE.  My instructor kept telling me to slow down while I was instruction my "patient" on how to take better care of her teeth.  I didn't feel like I was talking fast, but she apparently thought I was.  I think that made me even more nervous.  Oh well, I got through it.  Now I am on to tomorrow, Wednesday.  We are getting closer and closer to our actual patient days.  I can't wait to work on Trev.  Thank heavens he is willing to be my first victim, I mean patient!

Relaxed

I got to sit back and relax on Wednesday, October 20th.  I was able to enjoy being a patient today and not have to do too much.  I enjoyed being able to lie in the treatment chair and just chill.  MeChel worked on me and life was good.  She did a really good job!  I did have to pass off a couple of PEs right before clinic ended.  I'm not quite as comfortable with posterior scaling as I am anterior.  I know that it will come.  I just need to practice.

Easy Pleasey...

As my son would say, "Easy Pleasey, Lemon Squeezy."  Monday, October 18th was really interesting.  We started learning how to use a intraoral camera.  I thought that it was going to be the easiest thing in the world to put a small camera into someone's mouth and snap a picture.  Well, I was wrong.  It is very easy in theory, yet to actually do it and get the picture you want is another thing.  I had a hard time stabilizing the camera long enough to take a picture.  I was eventually able to do it, and it is really fun.  We are supposed to take pictures of things inside a patient's mouth to use for patient education purposes as well as for documentation.  That will be a nifty tool to use once we start working on patients.  I was also able to start scaling on anterior teeth today.  That is a BLAST!!!  I practiced at home and got a decent sized chunk of calculus off of my husband's teeth!  Let the calculus fly!