Boards and Emotions

So last week was a blur and my emotions are all over the place. Anesthesia written and clinical went great! After recieving my "pass" certificate I find out that Pam has a few days left to live. Such a bitter sweet day. I know she's out of pain and happy, but still a very sad situation. Clinical Boards sucked. I was the only one in the whole freakin' class to have their second submission taken and not the first. On my paper, the first submission box was checked and there were X's in the spots for extra teeth, but the second submission box was checked and tooth numbers were written above the X's. What the??? I'm so frustrated. I really hope everything else was right and that I got off all the calculus. So stressful!

Class III but II

So today I had a class III but I need class II's so Dr. Hansen said I could use him for a II which is crappy because in Taleval it make it look like I have easier patients, but in reality I've had harder patients. I've done this a couple times to myself:( This patients anatomy of his teeth was hard for me. He had a lot of abfraction and abrasion and was really sensitive but didn't want to be numb. I used oraquix on him but he really needed to be anesthetized. Dr. Hansen didn't have me put down the few spots I didn't get because when she came to help me, she said she totally understood why I missed them. First of all from the anatomy and second because of his sensitivity. She helped me get some stuff off, but the others were impossible because of patient compliance. He was a nice guy, but didn't want anesthetic. The only way to get into some spots is to use anesthetic. Oh well I guess?

Anesthesia Freakin' Mockboards

So today we had our anesthesia mockboards. I haven't really studied for the written... well I've read to page 16 out of 361 pages:) But I ended up with an 80% so I passed! Ha! I don't know if I deserved to though? But the clinical part uh... I passed the PSA and I failed the IA because my angle was slightly angled up. But it wasn't super critical and now I know exactly what angle I'm supposed to be at because Dr. Hansen stopped me during it and showed me. I'm so glad she did because I would really hate to fail because of being slightly off on that angle. The PSA which is the hardest injection (most of us think) Dr. Hansen said that my angles were right on! So, I had a really positive experience and a negative one. But I feel so much better about anesthesia boards now. Now watch me screw something super easy up. Eh, we'll see how it goes:)