A Class 3 Patient!!

Goals for today:
1. Get through the Health History, and Pass of my Blood Glucose PE
2. Have no retakes on Xrays
3. Pass off intra oral camera
Today I had a lady who came in who had a lot of health problems so I knew her health history was going to take me awhile ( just my luck again another patient who's health history is going to take me forty min). I knew before my patient came in that she had diabetes, so I had my blood glucose test ready so I could pass it off when it was time. So that was lucky on my part! So I can get that out of the way as far as PE's go! Then of course my patient is on like five different medications and she doesn't know what each medication is associated with so she pulls out all five bottles from her purse and leaves it up to me to figure out what medication belongs to what health condition. (Lucky Me, I don't think I would mind if I wasn't on a short time schedule, but every min. counts in clinic). Then it came time to pass off the blood glucose test. I take her blood glucose and it was way high, 238, which is way scary, but she took it earlier in the day and said it wasn't that high, and she told us that her A1c was 7.1. This was a good experience for me, because I haven't worked with anyone who has diabetes yet. Then it came time for x rays, and they turned out perfect, no need for retakes Yahoo! As I was looking at my x rays, I noticed there was a lot of visible calculus, a furcation and bone loss. I just kept thinking this is a good sign keeping my fingers crossed for a class three. Then as I moved onto probing I had a lot of bleeding and a lot of deep probe depths. Then it came time for the OD check. I was able to talk my instructor into a class three, all four quads! Yahoo! That was a big relief for me! My only problem is, is that I felt way bad because someone, had given me this patient a couple weeks before and she doesn't have a class three patient yet :( So I feel awful about that!