Well since I was CA today for clinic, which I might add was awesome!! I really enjoyed it!! No stress with patients!! Anyways, I had a crazy story I forgot to tell last week. At the VA, my afternoon patient had HIV!! I never ever thought I would see a patient with this disease!! I guess there is a first for everything!! Being nervous was definitely an understatement!! I said so many prayers to keep me safe and calm, so that a freak accident would not happen!! It was the craziest, awesome thing that happened!! As soon as I called my patients name, my nerves ceased!! I was expecting to deal with a very sick person, but what I saw was a 6'4 man who you would never guess had HIV. He was an awesome guy!! One of the coolest patients I have ever had!! I really enjoyed working on him!! I was so calm and able to think thru everything, and I did not make a mistake at all!! He was great, and I am so happy I was able to experience that!!
This week at the VA I saw a difficult class V, and let me tell ya, I was done with the VA that day. He was a difficult patient. First of all his blood pressure was off the charts, his lower and upper lip were like boulders trying to move them, which was impossible. His tongue was as strong as the hulk and then his cheeks were horrible!! I seriously could not do anything to get to his teeth!! He was impatient and his gag reflex was crazy bad. It was everything rolled into one, every patient is their very own.
In the afternoon, I was to my limit. I was frustrated and I wanted to leave. I had a new patient, and I knew this was going to be a very long time!! When I brought him back, I could smell the perio disease on his breath! As I was taking xrays, I could smell it thru my mask. This was the first day ever in my school career as a hygienist that I understood what everyone meant when they said wait until you smell periodontal disease!! Well I finally got too. I wouldn't think of it as a pleasure, because it was everything but that!! He was super kind and patient and very cooperative. He had not been into the dentist/hygienist in over 20 years. His fiance brought him in because (these are her exact words) "His breath stanks, and I ain't kissin' that until something is fixed in his mouth! We get married next June and I gotta fix whatever it is in his mouth, cuz I sure dont want it!" It made me laugh, because she was so adimit about his teeth, and he could careless, obviously. Well as I was probing I knew this was going to be good. His pocket depths were 6's 7's and 8's. He had pus and blood coming out of every single sulcus around his teeth!! He was foaming at every tooth and the smell was indescribable. Wow!! I just double masked up and went at it!! I finally got one quad done of a Class III!! A class 3 yall!! I was super stoked. It sucks because I did all the work and now another hygienist gets to have him and gets those requirements!! Ridiculous!! Oh well, I am hoping I will be able to get all of these requirements soon!!
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