The First of the Last ...at Last

This is my first day back at the VA and it is now the start of spring semester which also happens to be my last semester ever! (unless I miss school too much and come running back to the safety of books and tests). Finally I'm going to graduate!!!!
This morning I had a patient that was pretty easy, just a 1B but a very nice girl. I was supposed to be doing a re-eval but he no showed. Then I was supposed to have a second patient when my 8o'clock went home but he cancelled as well. It's been a pretty quiet morning. Thank goodness for Shalyce's second patient with K.C. the awesome golden retreiver-siberian husky mix service dog. He detects seizures about 3 minutes before they happen so he warns his owner and helps him get his medications and be safe during episodes. He was a cute huge dog and he talks and does lots of tricks that his owner was showing us while we waited for the premedication to kick in. Then it was just hanging out and trying to remain productive by helping others clean and such while I waited for lunchtime!

My afternoon patient was so awesome! He was very nice with class 3 periodontitis. I was able to do four injections, arestin, and use him as 2 quads of a class 3 exam! The injections were very cool, he is a larger man so I got to experience finding the landmarks around the extra tissue. I got him numb and then I got to try to get arestin down to the bottom of a 10mm pocket. So cool!!! I really loved it although I'm not so sure how I did on the scaling since my instructor was a bit unclear during scale check.