Change of plans...

Yesterday, I had a very stressful time before my patient was seated in the chair. I had tried to call and confirm the appointment for the entire weekend before but I never got an answer so on Sunday night I called a bunch of my other patients and no one was available! Then I talked to Colby's sister and she said she could come in for some x-rays and to let me pass off some PE's. Yesterday morning, when I arrived, I was feeling pretty calm because of the easy day I had ahead of me, I wouldn't have to do OD or scale! At 8:19AM my patient texted me to say she would be leaving shortly and then at 8:20 Katee called on the intercom to tell my my patient was there and to ask if HE would need a new health history. HIM???? Yes, that meant that my original patient showed up out of the blue without calling or making any attempt to confirm the appointment beforehand! I called Colby's sister and told her she didn't need to come in and rapidly changed my set up to be ready for a real appointment! Somehow I was able to finish (thanks to Instructor Carter giving me a time extension so I wouldn't have to bring him back. I also had a lot of fun with my patient yesterday, he's sixteen and even though I'm out of high school, I'm still young enough to relate well especially with the whole musical theater scene so I had fun joking with him about school and keeping his teeth clean and whatever else came up. He was also pretty clean so I was able to scale his whole mouth in only 30 minutes with 3 errors! I was way excited! It started out pretty rough but at the end of the day it all worked out perfectly.