1 Year 1 Month 23 Days Later

Ok so it has happened. I have been working as a dental hygienist for 1 year 1 month and 23 days and I have just received my first needle stick. I am so bugged!!!! It was a busy Monday. All 13 opertories are full and we are short an assistant so.....I am waiting for an exam and I cannot start my next patient because there are no ops available. So I decide to go in the back and start cleaning instruments. There was a mountain of trays. I started on top and worked my way down. On the bottom tray there was an uncapped needle and I did not see it and punctured my finger. I was MAD!!!! I ripped off my glove and looked at my finger. There was no blood so I milked my finger for 5 minutes and could not get the pink dot to bleed so I guessed I was alright. One of my Drs was standing there watching me trying to make my finger bleed so I explained the situation and he said the assistants should not have brought the tray back without capping the needle and one assistant said the Drs should not leave the needles uncapped! So we found out whose tray it was and which Dr was responsible and which patient I needed to go check out the health history. To make the drama short....my Dr was sorry and apologized to me and the patient was 17 yr old healthy one. So I hope it is alright. I feel ok about it. Should I be worried? Should I get my blood tested? Should I loose sleep? Should I become a pharmacist? These are all my questions.....1 year 1 month and 23 days later:)

No Adventure...Just Life

Well it has been a relatively calm week. I have worked like 1 minute. For some reason now that school is in parents are not coming in for prophys. I have worked 10 hours this week already and it is Wed...How lame huh? Well I should be grateful for this respite but I know my paycheck will suffer!

So unlike Kami I have been on the contact lens hunt,while she has been on the eyeglasses hunt. I want colored contacts that I can sleep in. They are available...the Internet does not lie. But I have been to two offices in Cedar and they do not carry them-and the contact lens website specifically told me that they were providers of the lens. My next option is to go to the Walmart vision center and just in case you missed this vital piece of info about me....I HATE Walmart. I will pay more money, I will drive farther away, I will pretty much do anything than support Walmart. So that is just not an option for me. How do I get these lenses....1-800-CONTACTS is a great option but I just do not know what colors I want. I don't want to look like freaky green eyed girl so I would like to try a sample lens. Is this so hard to ask for? I mean really.....Why am I getting so frustrated and irritated over a contact lens? I just need to get Lasix! Where is Melissa W when I need her....Oh that's right living life in O-town--I think.

Well Candice and I went to Lend Me a Tenor:The Musical and enjoyed it very much!! I have such admiration for actors who do 2 plays a season. They learn the lines in just a few weeks and remember which play they are in. I would get mixed up all over the place. Anyway they are amazing and talented!!!

I hope everyone is enjoying the last few days of summer!!!!

Where to begin....

I know I have been gone forever! I am not sure why I have stayed away so long. I could be due to the lack of cool things I have been doing or lack of time to spend at the computer or I am just lazy. My vote is for the later.

I hate to admit it but I have not placed blogging in my schedule. I am a lazy slacker:) All joking aside, I have been procrastinating writing because I just don't know where to begin. July was a great month. One of my Drs worked 5 days in July so I got a lot of time off. It was nice. I really liked having the break. It has made me love hygiene with a deeper fervor. I have had interesting patients with super fun walls of calculus! I love it when the ultrasonic tip hits it just right and you get the whole shelf to come off in one piece and you pull it out and show it to your patient....it grosses them out but a great teaching moment! Now I am wondering-how gross am I? Well besides work going well I have had some fun on my days off as well.

Candice Norris and I went to dinner and a movie the other day and it was great to sit and have 'nerd talk'! This dinner prepped me for getting together with my girls from hygiene school....Korbin, Natalie, Melissa-yes she was up from AZ, Heidi and Maria! We had promised to get together once a year and catch up. It was so nice to get together and hear about everyone's crazy drs and interesting patients and ethical dilemmas and how they set up their treatment plans for perio. I learned so much from these girls in school and the learning is still happening. I am so grateful for the weekend of nerd talk!!! Thanks ladies!

My friend Andrea and I went to Twelfth Night at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It was amazing! I loved it! Once again I am in love with Cedar City in the summer. Tomorrow Candice and I are going to Lend Me a Tenor: A Musical. We both have heard so many good things about it and I am excited to go!!

Well I know y'all are leading such productive--Bre is on a crafting mania, and busy lives--Crystal can barely keep her feet on the ground:), and here I am just being lazy....as a new friend of mine put it....'I want to live the life of a cat'!