Maria

Today was a very close call. My patient called me this morning at 8 and told me that she couldnt' find someone to watch her kids so she wasn't coming (in broken english/spanish). I told her to bring her kids in and I'd get her done really fast. She didn't like that idea so she called her neighbor and asked her to watch her kids while she came, but she could only come at 2pm. NOT GOOD! This was my last quad of a class III. So, I got really anxious when she wasn't here and wasn't here and so I started to ask other students if I could bum a quad off of their patient. To make matters worse, I couldn't find her chart. She was just in last week!!! So I had to have her fill out another HHX and do all that crap again-except I wasn't going to do another green sheet-I didn't have time!!! So, I got her LL quad done and I had 20ish minutes until check out, but I told her that if she brushed 2xday and flossed then she could wait until September to get her upper quads done-it just wasn't worth rushing and not being able to teach her any OHI. So I did OHI and sent her on her way. It turned out to be a good day, but it was really scary and stressful. Oh, and it was grannie hair day in clinic-so I had two buns all slicked up and looked like I was 12, but it was for the sake of the cause-Nat's idea. Love her!