1, 2, 3, CHEESE! :)

Ohhhhh the joys of clinic.  Seriously.  Sunday nights I dread going to school the next day, because I know it's my loooooooong day: I know that we have to learn yet another PE, (and probably have to pass off another), we have to know what we are doing and act like professionals, and, attempt taking some incredible x-rays:  it's just exhausting!!  and.....I try to stay happy through it all.  Anyway-- Clinic today actually.....wasn't that bad!  :)  I was terrified today because I knew I had to pass of the sickle-scaler PE, and didn't have any other choice.  But that went smoothly -- Prof. Costley was very helpful and she was brave enough to circle the word Pass.   YAY!  Anyway- Today was like a "real" day, where we set up for patient treatment, and performed skills that we learned on day 1---> to basically [last week!]  I was paired up with Hailey Checketts and was excited about that.  She did great working on me, and remembered so many things!  I was so glad I got to go 2nd, because she was my example :)  So....we had to look over HH, perform extra/intra oral exams, probe a quad, get it checked, chart the patient's mouth, get signatures, disclose our patient, come up with percentages...and the list went on    and on     and on    .  But- we survived, and it was VERY helpful to put all of our skills together and to test our knowledge.  (I must admit, I have forgotten a lot of small details, but with practice, I'll hopefully master everything!)  Today was good:  no almost shedding of the tears, no wanting to rip my hair out, and for SURE a lot of laughs.  Ohhhhh snap!  Almost forgot to mention what the flip we learned today! (That shows you how busy we were...we almost FORGOT to learn how to use the intra-oral camera.)  Basically all I observed was, "Push this thing in here, then plug this into here, then push this button, then have a buddy click the mouse, and then hit save and print, and....that's about all you need to know.  It's realllly simple."  Uhhhhhh- right..  Hopefully I'll get to actually practice that skill in real life.  Someday.  But right now: i'm off to bed.  Thank the heavens above that monday is over. .Life is gooooood.