As I have said before, I am in the distance dental hygiene
program. I really do have to take each minute at a time to get through my
weeks, but I seem to be making it okay. Since this was the second week, we were
done going over our syllabus, which is always a sad day, and on to learning new
material. My week started slow, but I knew as the days went on, the activity
was going to progress.
I had
clinic on Monday where we continued to practice probing and exploring into our
partners gingival, which is scary, and kind of hard. Probing has been easy for
me because I am basically just jabbing a blunted instrument into my partner’s
gums, but when it comes to exploring and feeling for calculus, I’m a bit dumb
founded. It just is not making sense to me to put a curved pointed tip into the
gums and keep it in there. I did it fine on our Frank (which is a dummy with
teeth and gums to practice on), but actually going into healthy gums is difficult!
Not only do I just have the stress of not being able to do it, we have a skill
evaluation next week which is a make or break it test. I cannot fail, or I’m
out. On top of that, I studied Monday night for a Radiology quiz which I had no
idea how to study for, nor a desire.
When Tuesday
rolled around, I did not do so hot on the quiz because to me, radiology is
boring. I will have to learn to like it though if I’m going to keep up this
program business. I spent ANOTHER night on Tuesday studying for the upcoming
Periodontics test we were going to have on Thursday, and then ANOTHER night
studying for it again on Wednesday night. Wednesday night studying was a little
tricky because it was my nephew’s one year old birthday, and I REALLY wanted to
go eat pizza, and watch him dig into a very messy strawberry cake. So, of
course personal life is ranked higher than school, and I did. It was fun being sociable,
since the last two nights, I really wasn’t. If I have a test coming up, I have
to lock myself in my room, make a huge pot of coffee to concentrate and talk to
myself about the material, so I retain it. Weird, I know. Anyway, I went over
and hoped that Briley would make a mess out of the cake. He didn’t, though, at
all. He touched it and got disgusted, and then he tasted it, and was disgusted.
Obviously sprinkles and strawberry cake was a very bad idea, so I left
disappointed to go and lock myself in my room again to study. I ended up
getting a 94% on my test! Woot! I guess pizza and cake were a good judgment
call after all.
Now it’s Friday, my week has been long and
stressful, and after sitting in a very long nutrition class today, I drove
home, and decided I needed to relax. I made myself a big ol’ salad, packed with
mushrooms, bright red tomatoes, sliced pickles, olives, cucumbers, carrots, and
balsamic vinegar dressing. Yum. And to top it off, a glass or two of Moscato
wine in a very pretty glass, I might add, because pretty glasses are what makes
wine so fun to drink. Now, I promise I am not an alcoholic, and drink alcohol
at 11:30 am every day, but today I felt it was needed. After eating such a
healthy lunch, I decided to counteract it with a nice chunk of chocolate cake,
with extra chocolate icing, and another glass of wine. BEST LUNCH EVER. Then I
drifted off into a nice long nap. Now I’m writing this blog, and trying to get
ready for the weekend of festivities with no work, thank goodness, and Briley’s
birthday party, and more relaxing, before another week of crap starts ALL over
again on Monday. :)
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