Journal #19

I hate people who do not look behind them before they back their cars out of a parking stall. Korbin and I almost totally got hit because some retarded lady didn't look before she just pushed on the gas and came hauling out of the parking slot. We were kind of freaking out because we totally had to swerve to miss her. Some times I wonder how people like that even passed their driving test. It makes me think that the longer you have your license the more dumb a driver you become!!!

Is everyone getting something new to wear to the graduation banquet? I am trying so hard to find a new dress but what the heck is semi formal? I have no clue. I think we should all just dress formal and then it wouldn't be so confusing!!! Also, I have been looking and looking and can't seem to find anything that I like. Where should I go? I have been to all the stores in the Newgate mall and Korbin told me that there is nothing good at the Layton hills mall. This seems harder then taking the board exam, finding a fabulous dress to where so you will all remember me as looking cute instead of looking like clinic trash!!!

If I don't find anything, be ware I might show up wearing nothing!!! Ha ha Ha just kidding!!

Journal #18

So I started out with like three class four patients and I didn't see any of them. High blood pressure, time, money took them all from me!! But I just want to say that there are some really great people in our class. I have had so much help in getting my requirments. I could not be on my way to graduating without the help of certain individuals in our class. I am finally in a great place with my requirments. I only need two quads of a class 3 YEA!!!!! And I still have two clinic times left YEA!!!!!!

I think that the clinic needs to charge people if they cancel, or just not schedule them again because these patients who don't even think before doing something so stupid like cancelling there appointment need to be taught some type of lesson. They need to know that we are providing valuable services to them that need to be appreciated and that our clinic is just like any regular dental office, which all have late or cancellation policies, so WSU needs policies too!!!

Journal #17

Ok so what is up with High Blood Pressure. I swear that anytime anyone gets into my chair, that they automatically get high blood pressure whether they have had it before or not. For some reason I cause High blood pressure. I know that I look scary in my loops and my clinic hair but that is no reason to go ahead and pump up your blood pressure. Oh well, life goes on!!
Natalie (note to self) - just remember you are doing a great service to your patients and that maybe one day you will save someone from keeling over because of high blood pressure.

Journal #16

Thanks so much to all of you who have helped me out so much with my requirments. I was really struggling and now I think that I will make it. I have more hope anyway!! As I look back on all the clinic sessions I have had so far I think the most fun patients were my family. Especially my silly sisters. They came in and I just had so much fun with them!! They were really good sports to sit through and participate in all my retarded PE's that I had to finish up like the air powder polish!! YUCK!! Each clinic session I get more sad and more sad because our time together is almost over. There are some people who I wouldn't mind ever seeing again, like Korbin!!! Ha Ha Ha just kidding!!! I think that I will miss everyone so much. We have been together for like two whole years almost everyday and it will be so weird to not have that anymore.
But it is not over yet!!!

journal #15

After todays clinic I am pretty frustrated. It just seems like every patient I schedule is not the requirments that I need. I am trying so hard to get 2's, 3's and 4's and I am looking in the hispanic population but even the hispanic patients that I have seen that have never had a cleaning before end up being either a 1B or a class 5. Why is it so hard this semester compared to all the rest!! I am even coming on extra days to have my patients cancel or be a class that I don't need. Nothing helps!
I just don't know what to do anymore.

Journal #14

Mockboards was this week and I did such a great job. I took the advice of one of the second year students who graduated last year. She used every ultrasonic tip for most of her time and then went back over with hand instruments. I did this just to try it out and it was so much easier. I will definitely use this on the real boards. I usually have tissue trauma because I am going back over each tooth so many times but I didn't even have any tissue trauma so I am totally convinced that this is the greatest way.
I think that everyone did so well also.
I think that our class is so great!! Our class is my favorite even if we are not the favorites of our professors!!!

We are all going to do so great!!! I just know it!!

Journal #13

I just took my National Board exam. I don't know how you can even study for a test like that. There is no way. There is just too much stuff to remember and too much variety of what you could be tested on. I just did what I thought I could do. I started studying early and kept up my study schedule until the very end. I didn't receive my score after the test and I don't think that I get it until around graduation time, which is like in three weeks, YEA! I don't even feel restless to know if I passed or not, I am just excited that it is finally over.
The case studies were the killer part for me. It is so subjective adn there could be more then one answer on almost all the questions. I hope that I did well and that I passed but right now all my focus is now turned to becoming prepared for my clinical exam and finishing up everything that needs to be done to finish up my dental hygiene class and to graduate!!

YEA I AM ALMOST DONE!!!!!

It is kind of bad to be done so early because now I am not motivated to do anything else!! Study for the dental hygiene test, YEA RIGHT!!!!

buy the book - YEA RIGHT!!!!!

put my patients in the computer- YEA RIGHT!!!!!

I AM DONE, I AM DONE, I AM DONE - AND I AM TOTALY READY TO GET OUT OF HERE!!

But I will miss everyone so badly!!

Journal #12

I found my board patient I think!! He was used two years ago for the boards and then last year for mockboards and I have had all the professors and instructors feel his calculus and they said that he would work but that I should keep looking. That doesn't really help me much but I figure that if they said that one quad was ok to use that if I submitted one quad plus four teeth that I would have the necessary calculus. He is such a nice guy and so willing to come in any time and so willing to stay for as long as necessary at each appointment. He is also someone who is very reliable, who I can trust to be where he needs to be when he needs to be there.

I am still looking because there is always that chance that I could find the " perfect board patient" but if not then at least I have something, now I just have to find a back up!!!

Journal #11

I PASSED!!!!! Wow I have never been so stressed in my life. I didn't even know how to handle it. I didn't know whether to cry or scream or just sleep!!! The written anesthesia test was not even like anything I had reviewed or studied. There were just a bunch of random questions. I felt like I guessed on a lot of the questions so after the test I was so sick to my stomach waiting for the results and then when I got them I screamed with relief!!! It was so great because my cute study group girls were all there and we opened them together. That was the best part!!!
The clinical was not as hard as I had imagined it to be. I went in there and did my thing with tons of confidence and passed the first time. I feel such a huge weight off of my shoulders. Now just one more written test to study for!!