TA-ing

So I have had the opportunity to be a TA in the Anatomy class this semester. It has been so fun for many reasons!
1. Its been nice to get to know the juniors. They have a fun class!
2.I get to work with Karlie and Tanya. They are very smart and hillarious and we've had some good times and very funny moments....
3. Perry's awesome. He explains things so well. And we got to see him walk like and dentinoblast again. Probably my most memorable lecture! and we captured it on film this time!
4. Its been a good review! Its amazing that we learned last year. Had I remembered it all LA wouldn't have been so hard!
5. I learned that its hard to be a teacher, its hard to write quizzes and its even harder to grade them!
Hopefully we were helpful to the juniors!
Looking back its been a great semester!

Materials Lab 2

Well, I'm finally doing something with the impressions that have been sitting in my locker for a month. I debated between making bleach trays or a night guard. I eventually settled on just bleach trays. So I worked on filling in all the bubbles. My impressions are now speckled blue! In the mean time I made the most beautiful temp crown. I was very proud of it! I've never made them the way we did in class. Karlie Weeks and I had a good time figuring it all out:) I thought afterward we should put them all on a necklace like peeps do with animal fangs. I thought that'd be a pretty sweet necklace of anterior temporary crowns. Karlie Nichols convinced me otherwise:( i still think she was wrong:) HaHa!

I bought loupes!

Wow, I feel like I just saw my hardest patient. I'm exhausted. He was just a II but boy it was hard work! I think my thumb and fulcrum finger are numb!  I did get to get my patient numb! I gave a psa which went well and then Perry helped me give an infraorbital! That was cool. He just kept pushing the needle in....
This morning I took conventional BWX! and then forgot they were duplicating film and put them through together. I didn't realize it till the last film...so i had to redo 3 of them:(  I'm a dork sometimes.
I also bought loupes today. It's so much less painful to just give a credit card number than writing out a thousand dollar check..AAAHHH! I am excited for them!
Well, I feel like I've had a full day!

VA today was quite exciting. I saw two pts this morning. I had a happy patient who REALLY loves his dogs. I had nice patient who REALLY didn't like one of the doctors. My afternoon patient  with REALLY high blood pressure, so high we was escorted to the emergency room! But since he left I got to help place some medicaments! That was pretty cool. I feel like I learned alot!

Clinic... i've lost track

Today was a good day. I got to see my bro which was fun. It was nice I could get him done quicker this semester instead of barely getting done in an appointment. Its nice to see improvement! I learned today that I need to REALLY review PE's. Lets just say i now know how to turn on a diagnodent. Luckily my instructor was nice. And... my ultrasonic got broken! Like tip completely snapped off! SAD.  I looked at it and thought, I didn't use my curved last time.. what the! But then I realized it was broken. I hope i get a new one.